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PSA: A Comment on Comments

PUBLISHED: October 26, 2010, John Ericson

Going way back, on my original HTML blog I was not looking to host comments at all, but Bruce and I both added this feature in due time to our original blogs and it has become a feature that readers certainly like and expect today. On the whole we have a great group of people [...]

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Larger Text – Did You Know?

PUBLISHED: May 21, 2010, Bruce Hembd

UPDATE: 6/11/2010 This feature has been removed. Being in my mid-forties I am finding that when reading I need to take off my glasses sometimes to see small print. If you are nodding your head right now, you may not have noticed that on the Horn Matters web site, you can actually enlarge the size [...]

Where the Horn Matters Fans Are

PUBLISHED: May 17, 2010, John Ericson

A number of things have been enjoyable for Bruce and myself in working on Horn Matters, and one in particular is knowing that we do have a group of readers that certainly follow us regularly. One block of those readers are following Horn Matters through Facebook which provides a very nice feed for our content. [...]

Random Monday, Early Edition: Barbarians at the Gates

PUBLISHED: May 16, 2010, Bruce Hembd

Surviving an attack A number of WordPress web sites at the same host as Horn Matters were slammed with malicious code last Friday. Sites that did not have the latest updates were hit hard, says our tech support. Horn Matters was fairly unstable and irregular over the weekend as it was slowly rebuilt and tested; [...]

30 Popular Posts & Shared Reading

PUBLISHED: April 20, 2010, Bruce Hembd

We have been experiencing a spike in new visitors. One feature that may be of interest is the 30 Popular Posts page. A third-party service called PostRank rates these articles based on a variety of things, mostly how often this post was shared in social media networks. Another area of interest is under the BROWSE [...]

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Site Stats; Thanks to our Readers

PUBLISHED: March 30, 2010, Bruce Hembd

This chart roughly represents direct site traffic from the past week. One thing it shows is that readers who come to Horn Matters stick around for a while to to look around. Last Thursday, we had a pretty epic day – 1,000 page loads!  On most average days, visitors look at about 4 pages, and [...]

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1,000 Posts FAQ

PUBLISHED: January 26, 2010, Horn Matters

Wow, this really is the 1,000th post! That is a whole lot of content! How did you get started? John: As I mentioned in the Bruce and John FAQ, we have been at this a while and have worked together in real life and online in various ways for many years. But I would mention [...]

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