About Me
I’m a blogger from Austin, Texas. I mostly write about my travel adventures.
About this Site
On July 10, 2005, my website UrS4.com celebrated its sixth year on the Internet. On the same date (actually a couple of days before), I pulled the plug on UrS4.com and replaced it with this new and more personal site – JimmyPribble.com.
First uploaded to the Internet on July 10, 1999, as Jimmy’s Audi S4 quattro Pages, my site focused on the ’92-’95 Audi S4 and S6, rare sport sedans with perhaps the best turbocharged engine Audi has ever made. It was also my first effort as a website designer. The site was built using an early version of Microsoft Publisher (WYSIWYG) and was heavily influenced by the color schemes of Audi’s corporate web site at the time.
On December 14, 1999, UrS4.com debuted, replacing Jimmy’s Audi S4 quattro Pages with a new domain name, a new logo, and an all new design. I began using Microsoft Front Page (still WYSIWYG) to build and maintain the site. The site temporarily went black in horror of 09.11.01., but otherwise continued to serve as a technical FAQ for the Audi enthusiast community.
In 2002, the latest version of the site was published, featuring much easier navigation and a cleaner layout. At it’s high point between 2002 and 2004, site statistics indicate that UrS4.com got about 200 unique visitors per day, who generated about 100,000 hits per month.
By the time the site reached its high point though, my own interest in the site had started to change. I was adding more and more personal content on the site at the same time that I was ignoring the core content, which I haven’t updated in over two years. So, I decided to let my friend Darin Nederhoff steward my old site here, at S-Cars.org. We have been cooperative sites almost since the beginning and even though it wasn’t necessary, he will even be hosting a full “classic” version of UrS4.com, when it was at its best. Of course, the site is also completely archived at the Internet Archive here. Even in disrepair, UrS4.com leaves its independent status as the 1,677,575th most visited site, according to Alexa. That’s not bad for a homemade enthusiast site without any traffic generating features (forums, classified ads, etc.) Well, until you consider that Zombo.com is at 108,884. My own employer is only a little better than 1.2M. So, my new goal is to crack a million.
The new site will obviously be much more personal in nature.