Omniture ClickMap & Twitter Debacle
I mentioned briefly before that I had failed to get Omnitures ClickMap working but today I had a flash of inspiration and had another go. Continue Reading →
Google Analytics IQ Qualification
Today I was invited to take the newly introduced GA IQ test and passed with a fairly reasonable 85% (You need 75% to be assured of the award). Continue Reading →
Omniture Site Catalyst
Had my first real go creating Omniture reports and graph shaped things today. It gave me an interesting perspective given the free Google alternative that I have far more experience with. Continue Reading →
Adobe Acrobatics
What is this obsession with PDF? Read by the idiot masses, created by the mysterious few, available to download all over the place. Continue Reading →
Flash User Interface Design Jiggery Pokery
Still working on a detailed functional design for a content management scheduling system. Having torn my hair out trying to find some pre-built components to barstardise I resorted to designing it all from scratch. Continue Reading →
Brightcove Fun & Games
Started working to integrate Brightcove video players with a third party ad agency today. Should be done pretty quickly so there will probably be few points of interest for me to bang on about here. Still, this kind of thing is relatively new so any problems I encounter are probably worth documenting. Continue Reading →
JavaScript Scheduler with Drag & Drop Functionality
A good usable interface is the holy Grail of all good web applications. Sites like Google and Flickr amongst others have excellently designed sites with good use of the latest JS and AJAX technologies. For mere mortals the only option to achieve similar levels of usability is to use the various JS frameworks and toolkits such as Scriptaculous, MooTools or Dojo. Continue Reading →
Dodgy Belkin USB-Wielding Router
I bought a new ADSL router at the weekend. I am not that impressed, but it will have to do for the moment since there does not seem to be anything better around. Rubbish. Continue Reading →
VMWare & Oracle UCM Image Installation
Today I had the pleasure of getting an 15GB image of RedHat with Oracle UCM installed up and running on one of the development boxes we have in a data centre, deep in the guts of the building. Continue Reading →
Qlikview Mutterings
I might be doing a course all about Qlikview later this month, so I thought I best do some research into what it is first and share my findings here. Continue Reading →
Mobile iGoogle improved on iPhone, but not perfect
Having removed the iPhone-optimised iGoogle to the distress of all obsessive users, such as myself, Google has redeemed itself by improving the interface it left us with slightly. A screenshot can be seen above… Continue Reading →
Yahoo Analytics Slow to Launch to the Masses?
Last April, Yahoo announced that it had acquired the leading web analytics specialist IndexTools and then in October last year it announced the beta of Yahoo Analytics available only to Yahoo small business customers. Since then things have gone very quiet. The website appears to promise much in the way of features but availability is still limited. Continue Reading →
All New Imbimp Redesign
No sooner had this site been built, but along comes a fancy new theme. This was always my intention, but it takes time to rip all the cardboard and photoshop all the remains. Continue Reading →
60 SEO Tips, Tricks & Hacks
SEO is now a critical requirement for any website. Without consideration for SEO, a site cannot expect to compete for vital search traffic. While important for any webmaster, SEO is also a minefield of information, some good and some bad. Not to mention that the things you need to know are hardly ever all in one place. Continue Reading →
How long do your users spend on forms?
One of the great new features of Google Analytics is the ability to track events. This opens up fantastic possiblities for tracking user behaviour using ajax, flash and other widget-like behaviour on your website. Continue Reading →
iPhone Optimized iGoogle leaves without saying goodbye
Last week I was disappointed to find out that the brilliant iphone optimised version of iGoogle had disappeared and been replaced with the standard mobile version. Rubbish. Not only do I use this version of iGoogle as my standard homepage both on laptop and mobile, but it is basically my iphone homepage (if it actually had a home page function). Nothing else compares.
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10 Keywords for Cheaper Insurance
Analytics work is not just about crunching big numbers. Continue Reading →