Simple Physics, Simple Website
By Christopher MooreAs you can see ilovephysics.com has gotten a face-lift. I’ve taken a cue from one of the most popular websites in the world: Google.
I love Google’s website because it is so simple. This site was starting to get too cluttered and too slow. So I’ve made it simple. I personally think it is quite elegant. 
I’m still working on the forums. Because punBB and Wordpress use completely different templating systems, I’m going to need to do a little more work to get the forum to look right.
For those interested in net advertising, this site is a good case study in what happens when you display too many ads. A few months ago I began displaying ads by Chitika as well as extra ads served by Google. I more than doubled the ads served on each page of this site. The result? ilovephysics.com’s ad revenue was cut in half! More ads, less ad revenue. Huh?
So I’ve gone back to a few simple Google ads. It makes the site easier to read, it loads faster, and should produce more revenue.
Also, since earlier today when I began re-templating the site, my Google PageRank for the main page went from 4 to 6! Goggle PageRank is a number that symbolizes how important your webpage is to Google and therefore how close to the top it appears in Google searches. You can get a rank from 0 to 10. I didn’t expect such a huge change in PageRank. I’m not quite sure why the ranking even changed, since the content is exactly the same.
For those who are interested in who actually visits ilovephysics.com, here is a list of countries whose citizens have poked around over the last few days:
United States
US Government (hopefully some congresscritters reading my posts about education)
US Military (hmmm?)
Australia
Poland
United Kingdom
Canada
Denmark
Russia
Mexico
France
Finland
Israel
Singapore
New Zealand
India
I hope you enjoy my simple website and my attempts to explain physics simply.
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