Stand up and cheer for a Happy New Beard Year 2009! Best wishes to all.
2009: Happy New Beard Year!
Stand up and cheer for a Happy New Beard Year 2009! Best wishes to all.
Category Archives: about beards.org
topics about the beards.org site, including new features and future enhancements
End of an era in beard history
The original All About BEARDS site: January 17, 1996 — October 31, 2008.
What is today the All About BEARDS site that resides here at beards.org appeared initially at the address http://members.aol.com/beardguy/ on the 17th of January 1996. On the 20th of January of 2005, the all-new All About BEARDS site made its debut at its current www.beards.org address. The old site was hosted on web space allocated to AOL members.
When the updated version of All About BEARDS opened at beards.org, I left the original up as a legacy site with pointers to the current site. Today, AOL shut down all of its members’ sites, including the All About BEARDS legacy site. So I am forced to bid a sentimental, fond farewell to the online presence of the early form of All About BEARDS. Rest assured, however, that All About BEARDS will continue — stronger than ever — at beards.org: building the future by honoring the past.
I also have some housekeeping to do. Actually, I never got completely weaned off of the old site, with a few features still residing there. I have some extra work to do now to migrate those features here.
six million already?
At the end of June, the galleries hit five million views. Late this evening, the counter clicked over to six million views. I wasn’t at the keyboard when it happened. I missed seeing it by 188 views. So I don’t readily know who was lucky number six million. At five million it was Jason (although it was not this photo — this one does not appear in the galleries at this time):
Click on the photo above to go to Jason’s beard feature.
Joe!
I would like to heartily thank Joe for doing his part to support the bearded cause. Joe is the latest addition to our featured beards series:
Check out Joe’s beard feature by clicking on his photo above.
a month without a post?
Wow. I thought that things would get back to normal in September. Boy, was I wrong.
what’s goin’ on
This is just a quick note to let you know a little about what’s going on with the site lately. A series of difficult circumstances arose in the second half of July and still continue today. This has pretty much put the brakes on site development. New features were put on hold and the daily updates to the beards of the world gallery have been held up. Around mid-August, I had only a brief opportunity to resume work on the site. I am hoping now that the work on the site will slowly be coming back up to speed. Thanks for your patience.
And here is another preview photo of Brian:
beard!
These are more examples of original beard photography from beards.org. There is much more to come.
happy five million!
At 9:55 PM PDT tonight, the counter on the beards.org photo gallery hit five million views! Amazingly, it was on today’s date exactly one year ago that the gallery hit two million views. Tonight’s achievement of the five million mark is a symbolic milestone because of the counter reading. However, the actual count is already higher than that for a number of reasons. A server failure prior to hitting the two-million mark caused a rollback of the counter. Deleting photos from the gallery causes their view numbers to get subtracted from the count. Also, Salvatore’s videos had high numbers of views that no longer show in the count because I took them offline. I took them offline because they were consuming too much bandwidth.
So which photo was lucky number five million on the counter tonight? It was this photo of Jason:
Click on the thumbnail image to view the larger image in the gallery.
Congratulations, Jason! Happy five million!
Firefox 3 and beards.org
The Firefox 3 browser came out yesterday and it slightly breaks the beards.org page layout. It moves the image that’s supposed to be in the upper right-hand corner over next to the image in the upper left-hand corner. I’ve found a way to fix the problem. But it will take me a while to get the change made to all of the affected pages. I was already behind on stuff for the site, so this extra work isn’t exactly a welcome development. Some of the pages have already been fixed. I’ll fix the rest as soon as I can plow through them. Meanwhile, if the upper-right corner image is not in its rightful place as you view the site in Firefox 3, you’ll know why.
Brian
Brian kindly participated in an exclusive photo shoot for all about beards yesterday, the 8th of March. This is a continuation of the site’s original beard photography project. Look for Brian soon in the featured beards section of the site.
UPDATE: Brian is now in the documentary beard photography section. His photo album is here.
