Geert's Ave Maria pages: news updates.

June 29, 2010

Another month gone by, another 10,000 page views.

June 20, 2010:

	All the individual page counters have been removed from the website. They worked on FrontPage extensions, and the server is having problems with them, causing the page counters to be reset to zero every time I updated the page.
	On June 8,2010 there were 3,551 Ave Maria listings and today there are 2,250 pages in the website.
	I am receiving so many scores now that I cannot keep up converting them to MIDI. That is not a complaint, keep sending them! I have posted a message asking for help inputting the scores into a notation program.
	The input of composers in AveWiki is progressing rather slowly.

May 29, 2010:

	705 MIDI files
	40,066 page views since November 22, 2009
	10,709 page views in the one month since April 29, 2010 by 3452 unique visitors from 101 countries.

May 1, 2010:

	Today *Geert's Ave Maria pages* reached 30,000 page views since Nov. 22, 2009 when the ShinyStat counter was installed.
	I also installed a 'flag counter' and it is interesting to see what countries the website visitors are from.

April 21, 2010:

I have installed a Wiki! It's still completely empty, but at least it's there. :-)

There has been a problem with the server's FrontPage extensions. As a result, all page counters were reset to zero on April 10.

The ShinyStat counter at the bottom of the page was not affected. There have been over 27,000 page views since November 2009, with on average about 100 visitors/day.

I have started adding a video icon to the status icons on the left of the listing pages, instead of only MP3.

December 18, 2009:

	There are now 1500 pages in this website, compared to 265 before the move to the new server and the avemariasongs domain name.
	This website has expanded from less than 50 MB (= the limit on the previous zianet server) to almost 400 MB.
	This expansion is entirely in the Ave Maria pages.
	With the use of MP3 samples and videos, the number of documented songs has more than doubled.

November 2, 2009: I started a major overhaul of the website.

The biggest change so far: the listing is no longer separated in pre- and post 1923.

	That division was useful in the context of USA copyright laws, but has no purpose in the rest of the world.
	This change should make a search for a composer name more efficient.
	The merger did reveal several duplicate listings.
	On the other hand, the single listing page is getting so big that FrontPage takes forever loading it.

Some of the composer pages now include videos, mostly from YouTube.
A high-speed connection is recommended to view those.

I am making individual pages for all the songs that I have some documentation for, i.e. either score, MIDI or recording. To access these pages, click the link in the composer name.

There are now 4 icon columns on the left side of the listing instead of three.
The purpose of these will no longer be to link to files, but to indicate what the archival status is for each song.

1	2	3	4
				1. I have the musical score for this song / 2. I have notated the score in NWC / 3. I have a MIDI of this song / 4. I have a performance recording (audio or video) of this song.
X	X	X	X	1. I do NOT have a score for this song/ 2. I have not completed the NWC file / 3. I do not have a MIDI / 4. I have no performance recording for this song.

This new system will show visitors what I am lacking for each listed song. Hopefully someone will send me the missing documentation.

October 31, 2009: Today should be the last day of the old zianet website. With the switch to a high-speed connection, I also have access to YouTube where quite a few Ave Marias are posted. I have started making new pages for some of those composers, embedding the YouTube videos. This will provide voice performances of some of the songs instead of just MIDI.

August 15, 2009 This website was moved to a different server and finally got its very own domain name avemariasongs.org. This was made possible by the gracious assistance of Debra Potts. Thank you, Debra.

May 24, 2009: This website now has 500 MIDI files for different settings of the Ave Maria.

April 16, 2009: Today I finished writing out the MIDI file for Ave Maria # 400!
Franz Liszt S20 No1, one of the larger ones too. I think I still have enough scores to get to 500.

January 1, 2008: A search of Werner Icking Music Archives during a sleepless night added a few files, including Gumpelzheimer's Ave Maria canon.

September 2006: It has been over a year, but finally I found some some time continue this project.
Completed all my available scores up to letter L. Many of the pages in this website also received a new look.
On Sept 16, I reached the 300 mark for the number of Ave Maria MIDI files on this site.

August 2005: finished writing out all my currently available scores up to letter G.

playing: 1896 ed. "Ave Maria" by Edward Groenevelt (1881)

Page last modified: August 28, 2010

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