Zeemp Highlights 2009
Thursday, December 31st, 2009Many great things have happened in Zeemp website in 2009. In this post, we are going to sum up what have kept us busy throughout the year, show you our mistakes, achievements and what we learned from your valuable feedback and comments. By the way, thanks a lot for all the support you’ve been giving us since we launch, we wouldn’t achieve anything without your help.
Before 2009
Before 2009, I used to spend countless hours on Web Design galleries and Architecture websites, I was addicted to discovering beautiful websites and great architectural projects. My partner Paulo Augusto (my brother) had dropped out the college of Law because he used to spend hours drawing in his notebook instead of learning the laws in classroom. My other partner (my father) had been fired after working more than 20 years in a public institution.
Then, I and my partners thought that the next logical step for us was: “We have got to do something for the Web” – But we didn’t want to launch just more one website, we wanted something that could reflect our personal visions and ambitions for a better world. As I told you we love Architecture and Design, then we realized that we could use the hundred of sketches of houses, cities and buildings we’ve been designing for years to build something cool. Zeemp was born with the main purpose of showcasing the best websites on Web on a city web map.
In November 2008, we wrote our first blog post Zeemp blog launch to show people what we’ve been doing. In December 2009, we wrote 10 Outstanding Website Designs, so we could show people some great sites that had inspired us.
January
In January, we launched our beta version. We were lucky enough to receive a lot of quality and sincere feedback from you, so we could keep improving our code and interface.
April
We removed the Beta label and launched Zeemp 1.0.
May
Instead of charging people to join, we decided to showcase the greatest websites in Internet on our Web Map.
July
We wrote two interesting posts in July:
10 Beautiful Websites for your Inspiration
12 Useful Web Apps to Get Feedback
August
How the future will look like?
Trying to answer this question, I wrote 40 Awesome Futuristic City Illustrations that went viral on Stumbleupon and Twitter. This post has reached 70,000 pageviews.
September
Following our passion for Architecture, we published a post about The New World Trade Center in New York and another that showcases real amazing projects being built all over the world: Stunning Real Urban Designs.
October
In October, we collected some great illustrations for your inspiration: 100 Wonderful Battle Art Illustrations and 60 Beautiful Oriental Style Artworks.
December
We are redesigning and redeveloping our Zeemp Map and Zeemp Blog, so we created a launching soon page and collected some useful tips all over the Web for you in the post Designing A Coming Soon Page.
Zeemp was a showcase of websites, but we thought we could be implement it with more social features. So you will be able to share, review and become fan of the brands you love.
Zeemp Traffic
We want to show you the results of your precious help, so we collected some cool data for you. This illustration shows our monthly traffic data in Zeemp.com in 2009.
Zeemp Blog Traffic
Traffic on Zeemp Blog have been growing massively since we begin to post some cool inspirational posts and showcases. As you can see, we reached 83,065 pageviews this year with only 14 blog posts. They have received a total of 129 great comments. We have got 20 subscribers via RSS and email, a tiny number, but it reflects one of my biggest mistakes this year: posting just once per month. A mistake that will be avoided at all costs in 2010, we want to publish at least 15 posts per month.
Zeemp Social Activity
We post interesting stuff in our social networks accounts, it will be a pleasure to connect with you.
Twitter Followers – 193 – Follow us
Facebook Fans – 91 – Become fan
What are your big plans for 2010?
We would love to hear your goals and ideas.
