Update on Simple Physics, Simple Website
By Christopher MooreThe other day I wrote about the website face lift. Here is a little update.
Concerning ads: I cut the number of ads served per page in half. And as I predicted, the ad revenue has doubled! It is weird, I know. This doesn’t mean the site is raking in the dough. Double the ad revenue per day buys an extra pack of gum. So I still have my hand out and a sign that says “will do physics problems for food.” At least I do not have to worry about starving my dogs so that I can pay my bandwidth bill.
Integrating the forum: For a few days, if you used most versions of Internet Explorer you would have had a pretty hard time reading the forum. The text was tiny! It looked great in Firefox, Safari, and Opera, but IE just couldn’t handle it. I fixed that. Image upload apparently is still not working for IE though. I will be fixing that. Another reason to Get Firefox.
Writing the tutorials: I have been busy writing physics tutorials. You can of course see what I’ve done so far by clicking the “Tutorials” link above. I will be updating them daily. Feel free to leave comments about what I have up so far. I’ve enabled comments for each page. When I’m all done, I’ll be publishing a print version for those who are interested. If your comments prove to be significantly useful, you’ll get a mention in the acknowledgements.
Other projects in the works: Each section of the tutorials will be accompanied by an online, graded quiz and a video demonstration or two. I’m working on adding many more problems to the Solution Generator. And I’ll get back to writing about common misconceptions in physics real soon.
That’s it.
