Today my website antman.info reached the milestone of 500000 hits. It's rather nice that my website has had half a million visits in the 10+ years of existence. I would like to take this opportunity thank all of the people who have visited the site in the past and also give a warm welcome to the people who visit the site in the future.

These milestones have now been reached:

• 100000th visitor came from  Netherlands on June 14th, 2007
• 200000th visitor came from  France on February 24th, 2009
• 300000th visitor came from  Finland on June 29th, 2010
• 400000th visitor came from  Belgium on February 24th, 2012
• 500000th visitor came from  Netherlands on October 5th, 2014

Today antman.info reached a new milestone as the flag counter announced that 100 different countries have visited this site. The flag counter started running on December 17, 2013 so it took about two and a half months to gather visitors from hundred different countries. The 100th country added to the list was Laos.

The whole CSS code of the antman.info website has been rewritten. Now the media queries work a lot smoother when all of the main CSS has been put to one single file instead of different CSS files for desktop and mobile views of the site. When putting all of the code into a single CSS file I also made plenty of optimizations into the code. This update doesn't affect the layout/template of the site, just makes it a bit smoother.

Lately I've made some minor updates on the site, these updates being:

• added the Flag Counter to show the flags of the visitors on the site
• added an Apple touch icon
• made some minor tweaks to the site's CSS

The pages have gone through a major change. The first thing you'll probably notice is the new layout, but there have been plenty of other changes as well. It has been almost two years since the previous major update and I've been working on this new version on/off for almost two months now. Here's a list of the main changes:

• new ant favicon and logo
• new layout based on 960 Grid System
• better optimization for mobile users
• now using Roboto as the main font on the site
• now using AddThis Smart Layers as the social sharing / following tools
• now using also Twitter API along with the previously used AddThis API, Facebook Platform, Google+ Platform, Open Graph Protocol and Schema.org microdata
• added Tweets by antman Twitter widget on home page
• added Vasplus Contact Form on the contact page
• added Instagram feed under the misc section
• added user scripts page under the misc section
• added Back to top -button
• upgraded jQuery JavaScript library from version 1.8.3 to version 2.0.3
• upgraded CuteNews from version 1.4.7 to version 1.5.3
• upgraded Serendipity from version 1.7.2 to version 1.7.3
• moved the links page under the misc section
• blog is now called news section
• removed old and obsolete news posts
• replaced prettyPhoto with fancybox as the image viewer script on some pages
• photo galleries now powered by TN3 Gallery

I just hope you like the changes I've made. In case you find any bugs, please let me know, my contact information can be found on the contact page.

Today, on June 23rd, antman.info celebrates its 10th Anniversary!

It was exactly ten years ago when the site came online and now, 10 years after and with 450000+ hits the site is still going strong!

What has happened until now? Here's a summary of the old news:

April 2006: Finally after more than a year since the last update on my web pages I managed to rewrite the whole code and give the pages a new look.
November 2006: antman.info has changed from one server to another, so there were some small bugs here and there during the transition phase before I had time to test that everything worked properly.
December 2006: I got bored of the previous look on the site and so everything has been re-done (again). Now the pages should work better with Internet Explorer too, but not yet perfectly. Some pages that were here previously have been completely removed from the site.
June 2007: On June 14th 2007 the hit counter of antman.info reached the milestone of 100000 hits. The 100000th visitor came from Netherlands.
May 2008: The pages have gone through a layout change. The new layout is more CSS driven and the XHTML and PHP code is lighter now. Otherwise there aren't that many changes in the content of the pages.
June 2008: The layout on the site has gone through a major change. I wasn't completely satisfied with the previous menu system so I decided to change it to a site navigation created with Simple Tree Menu. With this change in mind I needed to come up with a new layout that would best match the new menu system.
November 2008: The site has a new look. Just finished uploading all the files to the server and IMO it looks quite good. At the same time I made a few other changes as well: search page has been removed, directory structure has been changed a little, some other minor changes here and there.
February 2009: On February 24th 2009 the hit counter of antman.info reached the milestone of 200000 hits. The 200000th visitor came from France.
March 2009: It's that time again, the site has a brand new look. Otherwise the layout is pretty much the same as it used to be, but the color scheme has been completely changed together with some other minor layout changes. At the same time I made plenty of other changes here and there on the site.
May 2009: Just finished updating the whole content of antman.info and the most significant change is the new layout. This new layout has fixed width and is meant to be browsed with resolutions 1024x768 and higher. The code is now a lot more CSS driven and the PHP and XHTML are lighter.
December 2009: A long time has passed since the previous update on the pages so I decided to change everything (again) at once. The site has a new layout, which is much simpler than the previous one. The layout change is not the only change I made, even though the content is pretty much the same it used to be.
June 2010: On June 29th 2010 the hit counter of antman.info reached the milestone of 300000 hits. The 300000th visitor came from Finland.
December 2010: Just finished a major update on the site. All the pages have now been converted to HTML5 and at the same time the site has a brand new look.
July 2011: Just finished uploading the files of a major update on the site. All the pages have now been given a new layout and some parts of the site have been completely redone. At the same time the site has a brand new look.
December 2011: Just finished uploading the files of a major layout update on the site. All the pages have now been given a new layout and many things in the code of the site have been completely redone.
December 2011: The domain has been updated, so now the site works both with antman.info and www.antman.info urls.
February 2012: On February 24th 2012 the hit counter of antman.info reached the milestone of 400000 hits. The 400000th visitor came from Belgium.