A monthly look at Analytics

It’s a project that I’ve been working on for a while and it’s finally starting to show some information that is hopefully of some use for people.
If you head over to StatShare you can see the first of a monthly round up of analytics from August.
The idea of the project is to allow people to anonymously share their web stats to give us a picture of an “average” website.
If you would be so kind then why not share your web stats with the project? Every site added helps to improve the quality of the final stats we collate.

Search Analysis with Google Analytics

I nearly forgot about linking to this, my first article for a while.

For those who may have noticed I’ve been doing a few Google Analytics articles for Six Revisions and the latest published a few weeks ago looks at the basics of tracking searches on your site and what you can start to glean from the information available in Google Analytics. Click on the image to go and read the article.

What’s going on – new stuff and what’s in progress

For those unaware I am no longer working full time in web development and instead I’m flying planes around Europe for easyJet. That does not however mean I’m not doing web stuff anymore, I am! I’m pleased to still be involved at Armitage Online and they recently launched two sites that I’d been working on. The first is Leonardsfield House, a website for a Keswick guest house which is based on the nifty little CMS Perch, which is brilliant for straight forward no nonsense CMS needs.

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Decision-Making Models In Web Development

Well I’ve not posted on here for a while but it doesn’t mean I’m not busy. In fact it means I am very busy.
For those who don’t pop onto Smashing Magazine too often you may not have noticed but I wrote an article for them a while back which has just been published. It’s about using decision making models and applying them to web design scenarios, so why not go and check it out.
Decision-Making Models In Web Development

CSS hover tabs realigned.

This was requested on the original CSS hover tabs post and as usual it has taken me ages to get around to doing it.

Anyway it is just the previous version realigned and also with an added tab to show you how easy it is to customise and add extra tabs.

You can view the demo here, it’s pretty straight forward and I won’t go into detail as it is all worked using the same principles as the original post so read that first and then take a look at the source of this one. It’ll do you good to do some thinking and look at what’s changed!