Site history

It's time for another of these major updates of the tech behind the Global FlyFisher

For basically all the almost 30 years of its existence, I have been following the traffic patterns on GFF. I stopped about a year ago, and here is why.

For a painfully long time in August 2023 the Global FlyFisher was dead and gone. Our DNS-provider stumbled and took all their clients with them in the fall.

The site is back and in operation, but the downtime has led to some unfortunate errors, which I’m trying to fix as you read this

Social media can be a strange experience. It's really a mixed bag. And on Instagram 40% of all anglers seem to be women!

I have build a small Drupal-module, which enables me to see how many recipients open my newsletters and click on links in it

There’s a bunch of modules to help importing content into Drupal. My experience is that they are inadequate, and don’t do what I need. I prefer DIY.

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...

My fly tying room and office is slowly taking shape - and color. A set of shelves and small chests were painted green.

We have moved from an apartment to a house, and GFF is getting a larger and better equipped main office.

No, don't worry! It's not that GFF is disappearing, but the number of visitors isn’t what it used to be.

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.

Facebook is a strange universe. A fantastic resource and at the same time a source of endless, useless noise.

Google can pick up quite a lot of structured information from your site, and you can help by presenting it correctly

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.

Here's a rundown of the different things I do to keep spammers from posting on the Global FlyFisher

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.

This is the story about the adaptation of the old LeaderCalc spreadsheet to a Drupal module that drives a web based system