Just passed the 1.5 millionth page view here on the blog.
YEE-HAW!!!
Next stop: 2 million!
BTW, I just made a couple of changes in the style sheet for the blog to (a) make who wrote what post more obvious and (b) make the font for entries larger. Feedback welcome.
Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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Just passed the 1.5 millionth page view here on the blog.
I like being able to see who the author is but the font looks a little to big, for me anyway. Perhaps a font size between what it was and what it currently is.
How about giving the option to switch between serif and sans serif fonts like professional blogs?
Ah, the mature adolescent snarkiness and brave anonymity of the second poster!
I wonder if he even understands that that was sarcasm?
Congratulations on the milestone, Jimmy! I’m glad I started coming to your blog and contributing to that hit count. I agree with Stephen about the byline font size being a bit too big. It’s kind of disconcerting to see it so big and so red. I’d suggest making it smaller (the size of the date stamp would be great) and going back to green, but maybe bolded so it still stands out. Hope that helps!
If we’re voting, I prefer the old small fonts that named the poster.
In fact, I feel that I know the differences between the writing styles of the posters that I can tell who wrote them without looking (Jimmy is J, Michelle is E, Tim is P, guests are D).
I LOVE the new wider post space. The old narrow ribbon gave me a headache after awhile. (it is wider, isn’t it? Or am I hallucinating?)
Envy, Envy, Envy….
Great job! Always need to check the blog for updates. I even got my wife hooked. I can’t imagine why it won’t continue to grow. A few things I’ve learned from the blog:
1. The definition of turducken
2. What jimmy’s boots look like
3. Various sci-fi tidbits
Congrats, Jimmy! I always find something worthwhile on your site. I also enjoy your radio broadcasts.
God bless…Fr. Philip, OP
Jimmy, if you had a nickel for each page view:
(1500000 * 0.05) = $75,000.
I think I’m about 1,000 of those. Maybe, 900.
I account for plenty.
How about a new photo of yourself Jimmy? Stick with “the good guys wear the white hats” theme, ‘though.
How about the author’s name showing up in the RSS feeds too? I usually only open up the sub-pages for comments, everything else I read off of RSS.