Abut "us"?
Hmm... I am not sure this is the right title for this page. "Us" refers to things like "corporation" or "company" or "organization"... While this site is entirely my own "production", so far...
Well, I hate to speak about myself. But I have to answer to the holy question "who the heck are you?"
So -- I am Vlad Hristov - web designer, software developer, former teacher, former photographer...
And this site is here because I need some place to "centralize" all my activities.
I believe I am an ordinary man - just like everyone else. And like everyone -- I have some sort of skills. And I cannot find a reason to not "publish" my skills. That's why this site, these sites, are here...
But here is something many times better to put on this page: the history.
About this site:
May 2007 -- Domain chosen and purchased, initial planning and playing with the idea.
June 2007 -- I started this probably in June, to be fair - I don't remember exactly and don't have the time to go to the registrar and check. But the 1st tool was ready and added to the site in June. The template was born (the design itself)
July 2007 -- Let say that the site was born this month. We saw the initial 4 free tools listed and several resources from my old sites added. The 1st experiment started too (the "bushmeter" poll) as a direct result from my playing with Dojo (hrrr- I should publish the source with some explanation too, but when I will find the time...). In addition - I added the webmaster game - probably very stupid thing, but mine :-)
23 July 2007 -- the day of this writing. Just checked our alexa ranking: 755,194 and also - today I saw the first 100 downloads for the Screen Ruler tool.
29 July 2007 -- The brand new "CleanPage Template Shaker" launched. As promised and -- unbelievable for software publisher -- in time! Alexa ranking today: 661,483...
06 August 2007 -- I just came back from the short vacation and found that the contact form on this site isn't useless -- in message sent few days before one nice user asked for new feature for Screen Ruler. Thanks and cheers! This is the way we can build better tools... Additionally - alexa ranking increased in the last week -- current rank: 615,303...
29 August 2007 -- This month was the first "full" month in this story - with many gizmos released, the first sales, the first reviews... About 1700 uniquie visitors this month (according to Google Analytics), and increased Alexa ranking (421,660 at this moment). Well, google still doesn't give me any PR, but I hope this time will come too. It was a good 1st "real" month. Cheers. And may the force be with us.
01 September 2007 -- Hidden bug found in converter, fixed. New version planned & added in todo list. Alexa ranking today: 404,563
06 September 2007 -- Today is big national holiday here and I think it should be mentioned because I am Bulgarian, eventually. Oh, yes - and I just saw that Alexa ranking increased (again?!?) - now it is 392,898. Cheers!
16 September 2007 -- This is the first week we see our Alexa ranking lower (395,596). It was time to see this, so - cheers again ;-)
22 September 2007 -- Today is the Independence Day here, in Bulgaria. And I just published something new: File Splitter Pro. And Alexa ranking is again increased -- now 385,847...
28 September 2007 -- Alexa: 372,638. Wow!
03 October 2007 -- Alexa: 366,561. No Comment ...
15 October 2007 -- Official birthday of WonderWebWare.
28 October 2007 -- Alexa ranking down (388,623) BUT Google gave us PR, finally! (PR3) And... the brand new Sitemap Generator v.0.9 released today...
10 November 2007 -- New version of Sitemap generator and new version of Screen Ruler published last week. Alexa - back to 370,000
13 November -- Alexa = 357,891
25 November -- New tools published last week: vertical and horizontal css menu generators... And right after publishing them, I asked myself: why the heck I made 2 titles instead of one with both layouts? Hmm, well - the next version will be with them all...
03 Dec 2007 -- Well, these are the last week news: the css generator rewritten as promised, and new (combobox) menu added; one good man translated 2 of my tools in Korean (and I will try to put some screenshots online soon); we have 110% more visitors than the last month (sept) according to awStats; today Alexa ranking is 356,278...
08 Dec 2007 -- Alexa Rank update: 347,297; And just BTW - Compete gave us the first score: 715,057...
13 Dec 2007 -- Alexa: 321,669 -- Oh. la la ;-)
21 Dec 2007 -- Alexa: 307,293. Happy Holidays!!!
30 Dec 2007 -- Alexa: 305,246. Cheers!
HAPPY NEW YEAR !
03 Jan 2008 -- I finally found few hours to create the few missing pages (they were labelled as "coming soon") and to complete the help pages for Sitemap Generator. And once again we have alexa update: 303,281.
17 Jan 2008 -- Now I just saw we have Alexa rank: 289,557 - under 300K for first time! Cheers!
05 Feb 2008 -- Ok, in the last weeks I build 2 new versions of Sitemap Generator (one planned and one bugfix release) so the latest version of this tool is 0.93. In addition - this month is the first day with more than 1000 visits was in January - 25th... Thanks!
08 Feb 2008 - You ask, we build... The most asked question about CSS Menu Generator was "how to build pull-down menu?" and now, with the new version 2.0 you can... And something cool: I just found that two of my tools (HTML Converter and CSS Menu Generator) are labeled as "popular" in CNET's download.com site.
23 Feb 2008 - I am pleased to announce that File Splitter Pro ver.2.1 has been released. Now the join (merge) function is about 30% faster...
04 March 2008 - THE NEW VERSION OF TEMPLATE SHAKER IS HERE! Now - with 3 templates and many more customization options (images, colors, backgrounds, fonts, layouts)...
08 March 2008 -- New toy published (duplicates finder). New version of TemplateShaker - 2.1...
10 March 2008 -- TemplateShaker 2.2 has been released. Templates are now compatible with IE6...
12 March 2008 -- CSS Menu Generator 3.0 has been released. All menus are now compatible with IE6. Save/open functionality added...
19 March 2008 -- CSS Menu Generator 3.1 has been released. This is just another IE fix...
20 March 2008 -- TemplateShaker version 2.3 has been released. One new template added...
20 March 2008 -- I just added a forum to wonderwebware network. I hope it will be useful place for discussing the future of the tools I publish or at least for some centralized help and support...
28 March 2008 -- Screen Ruler v.2.0 has been published, and now the tool comes with "Load Image" functionality (the first feature requested by using the new forum and implemented in just one development day)...
10 April 2008 -- CSS Menu Generator 3.2 has been released. Just another pulldown menu fix...
14 April 2008 -- CSS Menu Generator is my first tool with more than 1000 downloads in download.com. Cheers!
18 April 2008 -- Sitemap Generator 0.94 released (doctype bug fixed)
21 April 2008 -- CSS Menu Generator 3.3 has been released. (Yet another bugfix release...)
22 April 2008 -- CSS Menu Generator 3.4 has been published. Few small features requested in the forum...
30 April 2008 -- Yesterday Google gave us PR 4 and this should be noted in this site history...
05 May 2008 -- Screen Ruler 3.0 has been published.
10 June 2008 -- Site Submit (first beta): free directory submitter with about 2500 "seo-friendly" directories in the database...
04 July 2008 -- TemplateShaker 2.4 has been published. New templates added, new and improved features and a special gift for all "pro-version" customers...
10 July 2008 -- Site Submit (v.0.2): the new version of the free directory submitter comes with about 5000 directories and some more improvements...
17 July 2008 -- I just checked the Alexa rank and it is 223,441. And because the 1st year is now a fact, here are some stats: total visits (robots not included): over 60,000 visits; over 174,000 pageviews; 39% direct traffic; 32% reffering sites; 29% search engines traffic; Bandwidth - over 150GB; 16% returning visitors; 2,354,381 lines total in the raw apache logs; CSS Menu Generator is the most downloaded tool (37,500 downloads so far); Screen Ruler with 6,200 downloads; Sitemap Generator with 6,100 downloads; TemplateShaker - 5,500 downloads; FileSplitter/pro - with 5,000 downloads... Not bad at all.
19 July 2008 -- New alexa rank: 222,108 ;-)
...and one "strange" page about my credo:
And something funny: How Much This Site Worth?