
Page last updated 2008-09-02. Tästä sivusta on myös suomenkielinen versio.
Site info 
On this page: 2008-09-02 background copyright update frequency technology browser support country statistics 2008-09-02Having spent uncounted number of hours to design the new site it became clear
that the project might never complete. To build the site from ground up
using completely new principles and new technology (including the data
conversion from the earlier site) is project too massive for one man.
So it is now time to make new plans. I will continue to develop the
current site and launch new features based on it. Gradually the site and its
technology will change to fullfill the current and the future needs.
I assume that the results will be reached faster on this direction
and the amount of work required will be tolerable.
The main goals of the future development on the
cat show photo galleries are- To improve searchability and browsability: better entry page, more ways to search, no need to jump from index pages to photo pages and back. This means for example the possibility to browse the photos based on the cat color or the cat individual.
- To lower the accessibility barrier: give more information for those that are not experts with the secrets of the cat show world. For example provide clear breed name in addition to the breed EMS code.
- To improve the photo viewer: the current photo viewer is clumsy if the screen is small. The photo viewer is subject to complete redesign.
- To keep it simple: the goal is to keep the appearance of the photo galleries clean and the browser requirements low. I'm not a fan of heavy web applications that take ages to load and often appear not to work properly on the browser of your choice. The new site will appear simple and will be focused on the same thing as the old site: the content.
- To have such a technical structure that the system can be maintained and developed for at least three years without a need for complete rewrite.
BackgroundThis site, www.heikkisiltala.com, is
Heikki Siltala's personal web site. The site was opened at October 1994 and has been evolving ever since.
This site exists mostly due to the need to express myself. You can contact the author by sending email to webmaster [at] heikkisiltala [dot] com. CopyrightThis site and the content of the site are © Heikki Siltala 1994-2008.
All rights reserved. Some pages have more detailed information
on the copyright of the material presented on that page. The cat show
photos differ from other material as they are available for use
under certain rulers stated nearby the photos. Update frequencySince this is a personal website maintained as a hobby no exact dates or promises of forthcoming updates are given.
Just check the site out once in a while! TechnologyThis site is based on two tehcnologies. The textual content is managed and generated by
Template-Toolkit -software and custom-build Perl scripts.
The photography content including
the cat show listings,
the EMS listings and
the breeder listings are generated
by the Perl-based TOTALWeb publishing system written by me for exclusive use of my website. Both
textual and photography content are of static HTML with CSS formatting. Some Perl-written dynamic
modules are present. Client-side active content
like JavaScript, Java, Flash
animations or Active X components are not used since I can manage fine without them.
The site formatting is done using relative font sizes so the pages will
obey browser's font size setting. The site is currently hosted on a virtual private server (VPS) based on Xen
virtual machine (Debian Linux). Browser support The site is developed and beta tested using Opera web browser (generation 9).
The site is tested also on Firefox (generation 2) and Internet Explorer (generation 7).
Other browsers like the Nokia E90 browser are occassionally used for a brief testing.
Due to simple and straight-forward site implementation it is very likely that any browser will
work fine with this site. Country statisticsHere are some visitor statistics on my website collected by my service provider during 7/2006-1/2007.
They indicate that most visitors (over 95 percent) came from USA, Finland and Sweden.
# COUNTRY
1 United States 46.0%
2 Finland 45.5%
3 Sweden 4.2%
4 Unknown 1.1%
5 United Kingdom 0.5%
6 Russia 0.4%
7 France 0.3%
8 China 0.3%
9 Germany 0.2%
10 Netherlands 0.2%
11 Norway
12 Belgium
13 Spain
14 Italy
15 Latvia
16 Poland
17 Estonia
18 Czech Republic
19 Canada
20 Denmark
21 Switzerland
22 Belarus
23 Israel
24 Austria
25 Hungary
26 Ireland
27 Ukraine
28 Australia
29 Lithuania
30 Japan
31 Romania
32 Portugal
33 Brazil
34 Taiwan
35 Turkey
36 Bulgaria
37 Argentina
38 Thailand
39 Korea, North
40 Egypt
41 Singapore
42 Saudi Arabia
43 Philippines
44 Hong Kong
45 Slovakia
46 South Africa
47 Greece
48 India
49 Luxembourg
50 Colombia
51 Mexico
52 Iceland
53 Iran
54 Slovenia
55 Uruguay
56 Malaysia
57 Morocco
58 New Zealand
59 Croatia (Hrvatska)
60 Pakistan
61 Indonesia
62 Serbia and Montenegro
63 Macedonia
64 Bahrain
65 Jordan
66 Cyprus
67 Dominican Republic
68 Algeria
69 Kenya
70 United Arab Emirates
71 Bolivia
72 Kyrgyzstan
73 Peru
74 Cameroon
75 Puerto Rico
76 Azerbaijan
77 Albania
78 Guatemala
79 Macau S.A.R.
80 Moldova
81 Dominica
82 Uganda
83 Chile
84 Madagascar
85 Tunisia
86 Angola
87 Bosnia and Herzegovina
88 Costa Rica
89 Venezuela
90 Mauritania
91 Panama
92 Sri Lanka
93 Cook Islands
94 Georgia
95 Honduras
96 Nigeria
97 Vietnam
98 Yemen
99 Libya
100 Lebanon
101 Benin
102 Kazakhstan
103 Kuwait
Page changes: - 2008-09-02: Added site development information.
- 2007-08-02: More about copyright. Update the technology and browser support. Polished some language.
- 2007-02-04: Updated browser info. Added the country statistics.
- 2005-09-14: More info on background, copyright, technology and browser support. Links tested.
- 2005-03-27: Added background. Added copyright -paragraph. Updated browser list. Texts overhalued.
- 2004-10-13: Added focal length conversion correction info.
- 2004-09-09: Added short descriptios of technology, updated frequency and tech changes.
- 2004-08-31: Added browser list.
- 2004-08-27: Page created, waits for content.
You can contact the author by sending email to webmaster [at] heikkisiltala [dot] com.
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