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The gallery image counter hit eleven million views on January 6, 2010! We hit ten million on October 25, 2009. It would have been nice to hit eleven million before the end of 2009, but this is still close enough! The eleven million number, however, only represents the number of beard views since the counter started from zero on January 26, 2006.
This time, I wasn’t at the keyboard to see which photo was number eleven million. In consolation, I’m illustrating this post with a previously-unpublished photo of Christopher.
all about beards made its first appearance on the web on the 17th of January of 1996. The site’s original objective was to promote beards in a positive manner. Thirteen years later, all about beards is the longest-running beard site on the web and the site remains dedicated to its original mission. We have come a long way, but there’s much more in store. With an eye on a bright future, our thirteenth anniversary year promises to be the best yet!
This is just a quick note to let you know a little about what’s going on with the site lately. A series of difficult circumstances arose in the second half of July and still continue today. This has pretty much put the brakes on site development. New features were put on hold and the daily updates to the beards of the world gallery have been held up. Around mid-August, I had only a brief opportunity to resume work on the site. I am hoping now that the work on the site will slowly be coming back up to speed. Thanks for your patience.
And here is another preview photo of Brian:
This is another example of original beard photography from beards.org. There is much more to come.
At 9:55 PM PDT tonight, the counter on the beards.org photo gallery hit five million views! Amazingly, it was on today’s date exactly one year ago that the gallery hit two million views. Tonight’s achievement of the five million mark is a symbolic milestone because of the counter reading. However, the actual count is already higher than that for a number of reasons. A server failure prior to hitting the two-million mark caused a rollback of the counter. Deleting photos from the gallery causes their view numbers to get subtracted from the count. Also, Salvatore’s videos had high numbers of views that no longer show in the count because I took them offline. I took them offline because they were consuming too much bandwidth.
So which photo was lucky number five million on the counter tonight? It was this photo of Jason:
Click on the thumbnail image to view the larger image in the gallery.
Congratulations, Jason! Happy five million!
The Firefox 3 browser came out yesterday and it slightly breaks the beards.org page layout. It moves the image that’s supposed to be in the upper right-hand corner over next to the image in the upper left-hand corner. I’ve found a way to fix the problem. But it will take me a while to get the change made to all of the affected pages. I was already behind on stuff for the site, so this extra work isn’t exactly a welcome development. Some of the pages have already been fixed. I’ll fix the rest as soon as I can plow through them. Meanwhile, if the upper-right corner image is not in its rightful place as you view the site in Firefox 3, you’ll know why.