Pacific History Guide: Six Month Update

Friends, it's been six months since Pacific History Guide went live. From humble beginnings this website has really grown, helped in no small part to the 100+ people who visit every month and some key people who have offered advice on how to improve it. I have a lot of hope for the future and feel like the best days of this website are right in front of it.

Over these last six months, I've come to define a battle rhythm for the website, focused around the weekly blog posts that point visitors to location pages and resources. This challenges me to keep writing and creating, but also helps me stay focused on the mission of the website, which can get lost in the history-focused posts. The idea here is to get folks connected with history, and I'll be keeping that in my sights moving forward.

This week, I took the opportunity to clean the website up, fixing the homepage up, adding filters to the reading and resource pages, putting menu bars on all the pages, and repairing broken links. Fine-tuning the blog categories so that they're easier to search was just as necessary as fixing the SEO settings so that folks can find the site more easily on search engines. I also cleaned up the mobile version of the site so it flows more easily and doesn’t have too many gaps.

Since going live, we've added Singapore, San Diego, and Australia to the location pages; we're inching ever closer to my goal of having a page for every duty station and port call. It's going to take some time to do this; I've got a family, career, and education to focus on so this will be a slow process. In the next six months, however, I'd like to get 250 visitors a month, in addition to adding three more locations. I'll be working hard on this goal, and it would be great to have you along for the ride!

Thanks for all the support!

Tony

Enjoying a selfie with my favorite jet, the A-7E Corsair II while on a training detachment to El Centro, CA August 2025