Welcome to my new website!
Now that I’ve finished The Ball I finally found the time to get back to my website! An all new website and a fresh start!
So what is new?
The design. Brought up to standards, modern, cleaner, more business like.
WordPress. Will make it easy for me to update it regularly, rather having having to mess with HTML files and a FTP.
Less clutter. I dumped a number of pages that weren’t all that useful, or I combined them with other pages. The result is a less cluttered website.
More updates. Updates every half a year suck. The plan is to post news at least a few times a month. What I am up to, and cool things that I came across online that caught my attention. That could be a video, website, a book, a game, and so on.
Updated tutorials. Some of my tutorials were written all the way back in 2007 and 2008. I am in the process of updating all those old tutorials.
New tutorials. I plan to write a few new tutorials once I got the old ones touched up. I am thinking of Cascade and Material tutorials at the moment but it could go anywhere.
Interviews. I want to do weekly or bi-weekly interviews with level designers and environment artists. If you work for a studio or on a really cool indie game feel free to shoot me a mail! I will need a lot of people to interview!
The tutorial pages are currently WIP. Everything else should work. If there is anything that does not work please shoot me an email/tweet so I can fix it.
Hourences.com is a pretty major website. Here are some interesting numbers from the past 365 days:
289 023 visitors.
1 602 553 pageviews.
Most popular page is in the tutorials index page with 248 567 views.
137 362 unique visitors according to the tracker. Although that is probably not correct.
People from 172 countries visited my website. Top three USA (87 748 people), UK (34 479), Germany (16 926).
56% Direct traffic. 23% Redirects. 20% Search engine traffic.
Most popular search word “hourences” – brought in 15 224 visitors. Another few thousand from various variations on my name.
For a website that I updated pretty much once in that entire time I am not unhappy with that… :) I really intend to do more with it, as time allows, and have it grow in size even more.
My UDK Game tutorial I posted on www.theballthegame.com rather than Hourences.com in itself pulled in another 152 714 visitors for that single page (that page will be moved to Hourences.com now by the way).
Thanks a lot to Ryan Watson – 1clickwebdesigns.co.uk for redesigning my site and setting it all up!
