I've been wondering what to write about for the past couple of weeks as it's been so hectic putting together the latest bumper edition, and it's been quite surprising the response we've had from everyone.
Take for instance when we first released issue 16 onto an unsuspecting world. The CRYPT has always been floppy based and had a readership of around 60 for each edition, but when we decided to make a web based version we never expected the response that we got. Imagine our surprise when just in the first few days after we released issue 16, we had over 500 visitors to our web site! What a big jump in the number of readers! And even now we average 50 visitors a week.
Another thing that is surprising is the amount of readers we get who use PC's to read the mag. 46% of our readers to the web version use Internet Explorer and 10% use Netscape. That's a grand total of 56% using PC browsers, compared with 35% using Amiga browsers. Seeing as we are an Amiga based On-line magazine you would have thought we would get a higher number of Amiga based browsers. Either we are attracting a high number of PC users to our magazine or a lot of Amiga users are browsing at work (But they wouldn't do that.... would they? :-)
So what has the Webmaster been doing these past weeks? Well, I bought Gold-ED6 which has made my life a lot easier and improved the web site a great deal. As I'm self taught from a book, some of my previous HTML was very suspect to say the least. But having a good Editor with a wonderful plug-in called "Webworld" that highlights the tags in different colours, makes writing good web sites a lot easier. I've still got a lot to learn, but then again that's what makes life interesting.
I hope you enjoy this edition as much as we enjoyed putting it together. If you did then send us an E-mail or put a comment in our guestbook. And if you have a spare moment or want to share something with the other hundreds of readers, why not drop us a small article and you never know, perhaps you'll see your name in the next issue of THE CRYPT.