But you can have a darn good try at it - is our opinion at LetaLife.
When we started LetaLife.com back in 2000 we knew absolutely nothing about how to put a website together.
Here's a Wayback snapshot of how LetaLife looked in the very early days Wayback is a handy little tool that is provided by Alexa.com to show you how various websites looked historically.
Alexa.com is generally quite useful to give various information on the websites it ranks and keeps statistics on. Alexa provides people with a toolbar so they can view information it stores easily, and it also takes stats from the people who use their tool bar to maintain their data. It is very handy to use to check out a website's bona fides.
Here's their blurb from their page about the toolbar
Keep your computer safe from spyware and adware. The Alexa Toolbar contains no advertising and does not profile or target you. More information about the Alexa Toolbar and how to keep your computer safe from spyware and adware.
If you want to get their toolbar you can get it from here This link takes you to their download page so you can read more about it and make your own mind up. Just clicking the link on this blog page won't start anything downloading or anything.
For many, many years LetaLife.com was the top UK Rental Property Website according to Alexa. However lately our ranking seems to have fallen.
Yet, our traffic is fairly constant, and we have seen no downturn in revenue. So all I can conclude is that less people with the Alexa toolbar are visiting our site so the stats look lower.
LetaLife has a number of improvements to our website in the pipeline and I really hope that they will make our visitors lives a little easier. But it is always a worry that adding improvements may complicate the users experience.
Hopefully we'll get it right, but if we don't, we will be listening to what people say and adapting accordingly.
We occasionally get emails from people who are unhappy or confused about something on the site and we do our best to address those issues.
Last week we had one of the very rare emails with swear words that are just a torrent of abuse but with no specific complaint other than we are bleep bleep and should bleep off!!
If anyone is reading this who ever does get that exasperated with our site please tell us exactly what it is that drives you mad. Then we can fix it.
But sweary emails will just be ignored I'm afraid.
A bit of irritation is fine, but foul language gets the email binned. It almost got someone reported to their IP provider for sending abusive emails, but we assumed the sender was probably a bit sloshed and decided to let it go this once.
I am always surprised at how many people are kind enough to email to say 'Thank you' to us. Every nice email is very much appreciated.
Hope you all had a nice weekend and have been enjoying Wimbledon, and wasn't the latest Doctor Who episode "Journey's End" a corker?
Looking forward to the Christmas Episode now.
It's official LetaLife.com is run by 'geeks' and sci fi addicts.
Live long and Prosper...
