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25 years online!

Feb 17. 2019
Celebrating You won’t find many web sites, which have been running for 25 years, and I seriously doubt that any current fly fishing sites have a quarter century long history
Read the story here
Blog entry

Do you like this site?

May 6. 2018
If you do, you might consider supporting it in a slightly more substantial way. It's been free for decades... literally... but could use a little saltwater injection. Now accepting PayPal...
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Green storage

Apr 16. 2018
My fly tying room and office is slowly taking shape - and color. A set of shelves and small chests were painted green.
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The new GFF HQ

Feb 18. 2018
We have moved from an apartment to a house, and GFF is getting a larger and better equipped main office.
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The decline of GFF

Jan 4. 2018
No, don't worry! It's not that GFF is disappearing, but the number of visitors isn’t what it used to be.
Nerd alert
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Preserving old URLs

Jun 25. 2017
I'm surprised how little web publishers cherish their old URLs. When I browse old links to the outside from our articles, I constantly meet 404-pages. I value GFF’s old web-addresses, and here's how I maintain them.
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To like or not to like

Jun 3. 2017
Facebook is a strange universe. A fantastic resource and at the same time a source of endless, useless noise.
Nerd alert
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Getting review ratings shown on Google

Apr 30. 2017
Google can pick up quite a lot of structured information from your site, and you can help by presenting it correctly
Nerd alert
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Node number 50,000

Apr 4. 2017
Just the other day the Global FlyFisher crossed the 50,000 node nid mark in the database. GFF is a large site, but still far from any boundaries set by Drupal.
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2017, here we come

Dec 31. 2016
New Year So another year has passed... and what then, did that year bring for the Global FlyFisher... and what about 2017?
A little status article.
Nerd alert
Blog entry

Fighting spam on GFF

Sep 2. 2016
Here's a rundown of the different things I do to keep spammers from posting on the Global FlyFisher
Nerd alert
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The fixed top menu

Jul 29. 2016
A lot of sites feature a part of the page – typically a top menu – that is fixed to the top of the screen when you scroll down. Here are some thoughts about such a feature and how to do it.
Nerd alert
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The technology behind LeaderCalc

Jul 27. 2016
This is the story about the adaptation of the old LeaderCalc spreadsheet to a Drupal module that drives a web based system
Nerd alert
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The GFF Drupal theme

Jul 26. 2016
The Drupal theme that's used on the Global FlyFisher is home made from scratch. I deplore large and complex themes, and prefer simple and compact.
Nerd alert
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The new newsletter

Jul 26. 2016
I reinstated the GFF Newsletter that we stopped sending a decade ago. This article is about the system driving the new newsletter.

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Since you got this far …

The GFF money box
The GFF money box
Martin Joergensen

… I have a small favor to ask.

Long story short

Support the Global FlyFisher through several different channels, including PayPal.

Long story longer

The Global FlyFisher has been online since the mid-90's and has been free to access for everybody since day one – and will stay free for as long as I run it.
But that doesn't mean that it's free to run.
It costs money to drive a large site like this.

See more details about what you can do to help in this blog post.