I meant mine. not yours.
Err… there is nothing wrong with personal homepages. I’ve had mine since 1995 and I’m not taking it down now. Most people understand the purpose of a personal homepage and don’t take them out of context.
Mine does pretty well as a site. I get about 60,000 visits / 500,000 pageviews per month.
Anyway, the purpose of the thread wasn’t to debate the existance of my site or the content, but rather the problem I’m having with the theme.
Didn’t mean to offend you Opal. I am an insecure person so I find it embarrassing to be outgoing on the internet.
btw I have improved my webpage
I have discovered that it’s auto-load page (the htm file that loads if you don’t specify a htm file in the URL) is called ‘default.htm’ instead of the usuall ‘index.htm’ will other people’s browsers load the correct one?
If anyone clicking my link fails to see the webpage please tell me, and add ‘/default.htm’ (without the single quote marks) to my url in this reply to see it.
I can understand you not wanting a personal homepage like that… but to say that they are “never a good idea” is also rather self important, isn’t it? As if you were the person designated as judge of what was and wasn’t “a good idea” on the web?
I got ‘never a good idea’ from web page advice experts. They say things like -
“In most cases - anyone other than family or friends will not be even slightly interested in seeing pictures/info/stories about someone who, to them, is a complete and utter stranger. The web is useful for internationally or nationally relevant info/entertainment - personal WebPages provide neither of those. Anyone who does know the subject (person) of the personal web page can get pictures/info/stories without going on the web, so putting such information on the web contributes to it’s mass-clutter” (paraphrased)
I tend to agree with what the experts say.
Opal. Yours is an unusually good quality one. And I must admit I have looked at very little of it. But the fact remains - I think the experts are right in most cases - so, lacking the skill to do a web page as qualitative as yours, I will never do a personal web page myself.
I have to disagree. First off, the web is precisely where most of my friends go to get pictures/info/stories about me. Most of my friends and family don’t live anywhere near me. Secondly, personal sites are a large part of what makes the web what it is. The web isn’t just a giant tv network with news, entertainment, and advertising. It is also a network of people–connecting with other people. I often find other people’s personal homepages quite interesting. I’ve met people online because I happened across their homepage and ended up emailing them. I think that the web would lose a lot of its character if the personal sites weren’t part of it.
What self-righteous, short-sighted, paraphrased “experts” said that?
Not to pile on or anything, but it is not as if the internet were limited real estate. We aren’t going to run out of net because somone wants to put up a picture of their cat/shoe/whatevah. There is absolutly room for a discussion on how to catalogue the net, a reassignment of top-domain names for example which would allow searches to be refined only to company, academic, personal, etc sites. That however is a whole new discussion and I will gladly join it in another thread. Meantime, anyone can put anything they want on the web as far as I am concerned within the limits of the law. One mans meat is another mans poison. I would probably rather gouge out my eyes rather than switch start-page with half the people on the net 
Getting back to Opalcats site. Seeing as you have so much pre-existant content within an established CMS (content managment system), a restart might not be feasible. However, it might be worth sitting down and working out what are the “must haves” and which features are just “well, I like it”. For example, most visitors won’t care how many views a page has had, we websurfers are a fairly egocentric bunch, all we care about is that we are there. If you decide which bits are must-haves perhaps we can shut down the other modules and rewrite a portion of script to do the must have?