Happy Birthday, Dear Blog

© 2008 by Andreas Jacob — Reborn, Cordobo wearing Hardbound 2

During the last five years I studied literature and linguistics, worked as webdesigner for an agency, gained a lot of good and some not so good experiences, travelled about 29 thousand miles, made the decision to resign from my job and started to work as freelance webdesigner which I didn’t regret and — I had one blog.

Five years ago I started this blog on August 19^th, 2004 as a personal blog with an entry about a lost laptop of my Korean friend Young. The focus shifted slowly and I covered mainly web 2.0 services. For about three years now the blog is about web development & webdesign with few exceptions.

Statistics of five funny years

• 2 domains (cordobo.de & cordobo.com)
• 3 webhosters
• 6 plugins (Akismet, All in One SEO Pack, Dean’s Permalinks Migration, Google XML Sitemaps, Twitter for WordPress & WP Super Cache)
• 7 MySQL databases
• 12 wordpress themes (some are available for free)
• 24 wordpress updates/upgrades
• visitors from 151 countries, mostly from the USA, Germany, China, Brazil, India, Australia, Canada & the U.K.
• 332 articles (+11 drafts)
• 1,952 comments, trackbacks and pingbacks
• 4,540 backlinks (says Google)
• 131,132 spams
  highest: July 2008 – 7,927 spams
  lowest: November 2006 – 35 spams
• 1,260,113 visitors
• 4,019,760 served pages
• 3,753 GB of Traffic
• and infinite hours spent with CSS, HTML, WordPress, Photoshop, Illustrator, Eclipse …

Today I celebrate my blogs fifth birthday with some new clothes – the actual theme used on Cordobo is called “Hardbound 2“. Its a clean theme optimized for fast rendering, features a lot of accessibility improvements with a strong focus on typography. Although there are still some minor issues, misalignments and unformatted areas here and there, I couldn’t resist any longer to change to the new theme.

Hope you liked it so far, for another term of five years.