I would like to continue our series with another very interesting site, called Simple Help. The site is owned by Ross McKillop and it was launched back in August of 2006. Since then, Ross has published approximately 600 tutorials split into several categories, one of them being Windows Vista. This site focuses mostly on beginner-to-intermediate computer users who want to learn how to do various things with their computers. As you will see for yourself, the quality of the articles is very good. This is why this site was already featured several times on important sites such as digg.com or LifeHacker.

As its name suggests, ITsVista.com is a web destination dedicated to Windows Vista. The website was started in December 2006, just a bit before we launched Windows Vista for Beginners. The person behind this website is Joseph Fieber, a very friendly computer enthusiast with whom we collaborated in a few occasions.

When browsing this website, you will find the following categories: Tips and Tricks, Windows Updates & Hotfixes (with complete descriptions and links for direct downloads), Knowledge Base Links to articles describing known Windows Vista errors, a complete list of Windows Vista Keyboard Shortcuts, information about Windows Vista's Services and Commands, a few Product Reviews, a Glossary of terms explaining many abbreviations you might encounter while working with Windows Vista and a collection of Videos and Web Links.

In case you were wondering how are we doing this year, here you have our site's traffic details for the period March 1st - May 31st. As you can see from the screenshots below, we had a total of 377400 visits and 892637 pageviews which means an average of 2.37 Pages/Visit. We were not very satisfied with the number of average pages per visit from our first months of existence so we made a number of tweaks which seem to have payed off. Also, we managed to increase the average time spent on site from 01:43 minutes to 02:22 minutes.

A while back, we decided to remove our Links section and start reviewing the best How-To destinations on the web. We thought this would bring more value to both our readers and the sites we choose for reviewing. I would like to initiate this series with one of the sites I read regularly via my RSS feed reader: the How-To Geek. On this site you will find plenty of tutorials, the blogs of the people who write most of the site content, a freshly started How-To Wiki and a pretty active forum.

One of the things we would like to improve this year is the number of articles published per week. Right now we are not posting more than 2-3 articles in a week and we want to do more. In order to achieve such a goal we definitely need more volunteers willing to write with us. So, if you wrote one useful tutorial, a nice review, etc and you want to have it published on our site, don't hesitate to contact us. We are very open to any type of collaboration.

Also, if you are a site administrator and you would like to get some link-love, you can publish an article on our site and also post some links back to your site(s).

While analyzing the monthly traffic on our site we realized that the 'Links' section had a very small number of visitors. On a monthly basis, this section is visited 500 times. This represents only 0.17% of our monthly traffic. Such small numbers do not justify keeping a separate section only for links. Also, having your site listed on our section doesn't bring you too much traffic. This is why we decided to remove this section entirely and replace it with something better.

Since our launch, back on the 21st of January 2007, our site has evolved a lot - especially in the number of published articles and the amount of traffic it receives every day. For those of you who are curios how many visitors we had in the first year, here you have our traffic details until January 21st 2008.

Since it's launch, our site has evolved quite a lot: we published around 140 articles, we added new features, content categories, improved the navigation and the quality of our writing. In the months to come we would like to continue this process of evolution and offer much more to our visitors.

The newly created blog section will be used to inform you of the changes to come, share our learning and build a stronger relationship with our readers.