Site Information and Stats
The idea for the Glapthorn Village Website started back in 2001. I thought about the way information technology had become the  marker by which 21st century was known and wondered how the village of Glapthorn would take to having its own website.  Having approached a few people I decided to go ahead and develop the website. 
Many villages and communities were already making use of the Internet to provide access to information for parishioners, relations and expats across the world. I felt it was time for Glapthorn to join the information age, so I registered the domain name and started work.

 
After some lengthy research on a pilot site was set up to test the general layout and initial content of the site. After testing out a number of designs Warmington Village Web went live on 1st October 2001. 
 


Tech Spec
For those interested in the technical aspects of the Glapthorn Village Website, here are a few facts and figures.
  • Authoring software - HTML Kit and MS Frontpage
  • Internet languages - HTML, Javascript, Perl and PHP
  • Database - MySQL
  • User Agents - MSIE 75%, Netscape 2% (averages) 
  • Hosting Service - Supanames
  • Monthly downloads - over 150Mb
  • Monthly hits - over 58,000
The site is generally written in HTML with some specific services, i.e. forum and diary written in Perl and PHP. A few pages, i.e. the home page, also use SSIs. 
Search engine rankings for "Glapthorn" on               2 April 2007 were:
  • Google - Top 2 places
  • Yahoo - Top 3 places
  • Teoma - Top 2 places
  • Altavista - Top 3 places
  • MS Search - Top 3 places
  • Ask - Top 2 places

Using HotBot for a link domain search brings up 158 sites that have linked to this site.

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