PARWICH.ORG

We knew that Wakes Week was going to be a busy time for PARWICH.ORG, but we didn’t quite expect such record-breaking traffic. Yesterday, there were a whopping 1790 page views on this site: a new record. And at some point during the course of today, we will reach 200,000 page views since the [...]

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Recently someone had an email to parwich@hotmail.co.uk bounced with an error message, saying the email address was not valid. They contacted a member of the blog team directly, and we suggested they try sending it again. The second time it came through OK. This may have been an isolated incident, but do let us know [...]

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Exactly one year ago today, PARWICH.ORG was officially launched. With 1400 blog posts, 1525 comments and over 150,000 page views under our belts to date, it’s been quite a journey – and we hope you’ve enjoyed the ride so far.
Thanks to all our readers – both within the Parwich/Alsop/Ballidon/Pikehall district and further afield – [...]

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Dear blog readers,
As many of you know, we have been blogging for nearly a year now.  We went “live” to the world at large in March 2008.  We tend to get about 10,000 to 15,000 hits a month with a high of 20,671 hits in December last year (when Tom Chambers was dancing his socks [...]

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Thanks to the triple-whammy of a) the Big Lottery Fund grant, b) the cheeky Advent Calendar pages and c) Tom’s Strictly Come Dancing victory, PARWICH.ORG has enjoyed a record month in terms of visitor numbers, with over 20,000 page views (and counting).
This beats our previous record of just over 15,000 page views in [...]

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We know it is early but this gives us an excuse to promote our Memorial Hall Project Christmas card fund raiser. Click here to see the full sized image and to find out how you can have your own Christmas cards created and put on-line by PARWICH.ORG

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Yes, it’s another milestone….
Somewhere around breakfast time on Monday November 10th, PARWICH.ORG clocked up its 100,000th page view.
(The actual total is a little higher, but our stats counter disregards page views registered by members of the editorial team.)
How long until we reach the million mark, one wonders?

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Some of the information you can access via PARWICH.ORG is in pdf format (e.g. the School Newsletters and Memorial Hall Management Committee minutes).  This format was designed so that people can access documents in exactly the layout they were written, unaltered by the various web browsers.  Also it is a quick and easy way to convert documents for the [...]

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Officially speaking, PARWICH.ORG is not much more than six months old – but strictly speaking, we’re a little older than that.
Exactly a year ago today, with no fanfare and no publicity, the very first test post appeared on this blog. It was a modest piece, which simply linked to a 1975 news [...]

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It is positive to see so many people adding comments.  As well as approaching 80,000 hits, the number of comments so far is in the 980s.  Who will make the 1,000th comment?
Don’t forget the more comments you add to the site and the more new posts you email to parwich@hotmail.co.uk the more this site will reflect [...]

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Our yet More Links page has recently been updated.  It contains list of links relating to:

Other Derbyshire or Peak District communities’ websites
General Derbyshire and Peak District sites
Midlands and National general rural living sites

Do let us know about any other websites that you think we should add, particularly other Peak District community sites that we have [...]

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To all commenters: please be aware that a valid e-mail address must be supplied when leaving a comment. From this point onwards, the admin team will automatically delete any comment made using a fake e-mail address.
As explained before, e-mail addresses will never be revealed to anyone outside the admin team – so please, comment with [...]

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After all the excitement of Wakes Week, we seem to be heading into something of a quiet period. For the first time since the official launch of this site (March 16th), no new posts were published yesterday, ending an unbroken 129-day run.
With the holiday season now upon us, posting frequency will probably remain quite [...]

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Wednesday marked another milestone in the short but eventful history of PARWICH.ORG, as the site received over 1000 page views in a single day.
For a community with only around 500 on its electoral roll, that’s pretty good going!
Those of us on the editorial team always knew that Wakes Week would be a busy time for [...]

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We saw a record number of hits yesterday at PARWICH.ORG, with 902 page/post views, about 250 more than our previous best day!  In part this is because of Wakes Week, and the fact that we have been able to get some things posted on the same day.  Thank you to the Blog team and to [...]

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It is great how so many people are commenting on posts. Hopefully the more debate the better informed we will all be, and PARWICH.ORG will be an increasingly accurate reflection of the whole community. However, don’t forget you can also create your own new posts by emailing them to parwich@hotmail.co.uk.
Some excellent photos are coming in; [...]

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The other day someone was asking me what happens to posts after they fall off the bottom of our HOME page.  So for anyone else also wondering how to find old posts here is some guidance.
At present the HOME page shows the 40 most recent posts (this number can be altered but 40 seems to about work).  [...]

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So far our four most popular posts, since the site was launched, are all very different:
When is a neighbour not a neighbour?
243 hits
Easter Cards & Scrapbooking with the WI
233 hits
New “sounds” for church bells
205 hits
Carolyn’s Corner (No. 1)
167 hits
There are each by different bloggers and each on very different topics.  Two of them, the planning post and [...]

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Most of you will have already mastered finding your way around PARWICH.ORG, but for those of you like me it may take a bit longer.  If you are feeling a bit bemused click here to visit our SITE MAP.  Not everyone will find it useful, but some of you may.  To find the SITE MAP [...]

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This afternoon we have just past the 20,000th hit on our website, which is really remarkable for such a small village.
I would particularly like to thank two people. Without Mike Atkinson’s vision and expertise we would probably never have had such an appealing, well laid out site, that is informative and easy to use. [...]

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Please note the new section in the right hand column called “Elsewhere on PARWICH.ORG”.  Hopefully there will be something here to interest you.  Also you may find the ‘Site Map’ helpful in finding your way around as the number of pages grows.
Check out the various new pages, including Photo Gallery, Jigsaws! and More Links, to see if you [...]

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Our CALENDAR page has been expanded to cover events for the full year.
We have also added a second page, which lists Events beyond our immediate area.  Although this list is not intended to be exhaustively comprehensive, it does detail some of the larger local events that are still within easy travelling distance.  As always, do please [...]

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Just to clarify something which has apparently been causing some confusion: when you see the words “No Comments” at the end of a post, it just means that nobody has left a comment as yet. It’s not an instruction, forbidding you to leave any comments!
If you want to leave the first comment on a [...]

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At some point later today (Friday), PARWICH.ORG will be clocking up its 10,000th page view. Considering that we launched the site less than four weeks ago, that’s a remarkable achievement, and one which surpasses even our wildest expectations.
If you had asked me to estimate our daily readership figures a couple of months ago, I would [...]

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