I've been working on the Taekwondo site on and off for 2 years now. I thought at this juncture it might be a good idea, for my own record, to show the stats to date. The counter was installed 28th September 2006, and StatCounter tells me that since then:

Pageloads: 94731
Unique Visitors: 33745
Returning Visitors (my favourite one!): 4684

So...I've reached out to over 30k people with the site, and hopefully most of them were either already involved in, or considering getting involved in, the worlds biggest and (as far as I'm concerned of course) best Martial Art - Taekwondo.

The site is generally done, with the obvious exception of the pattern pages which take an absolute age to complete, but I plan to get them done and dusted shortly. I might even have a stab at presenting some of the higher level patterns once those are complete.

The Blog was without doubt the best thing I did, and a close second the contact page. The site has got me in touch with Taekwondo practitioners worldwide. It's always a great pleasure to get comments on the blog, or comments through the contact form.

Just as a by note on the off chance anyone's wondered why I chose "tomcat" as an Internet Pseudonym, this hails back to the days when I played Quake a lot. I chose tomcat as a player name, because the F14 "tomcat" was capable of engaging and destroying 24 targets simultaneously. Seemed like a good name at the time and I'm too old to change it now. I don't play Quake any more, as Taekwondo is much more interesting! There's only a week to go till the Dorset Championships and I'm looking forward to that. Rest assured my performance (and that of my son James) will be posted shortly after the end of the day (June 1st).

So what's next for Tomcat's Taekwondo? I've got more ideas for presenting some important aspects of Taekwondo training & techniques, which I plan to get done in the near future. I toyed with the idea of including a Taekwondo Forum, but decided it wasn't something I was up to the task of making a success of. Forums need lots of participants and I'm not sure I can attract enough to make it worthwhile. I am seriously considering adding a club directory to complement the work I've done over at the ODP to help UK Taekwondo clubs gain exposure. I've been working on some tweaks to the layout, which should be published this week (they're based around general improvements in readability and overall design factors).

***update*** Have now republished the blog with the new layout. It was a LOT harder than I thought it would be, but the layout is much more how I'd like it to be, better colours, better CSS & XHTML and a new logo. I'll probably post some details on the coding on my personal blog when it's completely done.

Just to end this post - my heartfelt thanks to everyone who visited in the last two years and not only found what they were looking for, but chose to take the time to let me know by using the contact form or leave a comment on the blog.

Yours in Taekwondo

Andy Fletcher