Can I get a Google Wave invite please?
Google announces its first series of testers amid tons of pop and circumstance. Apparently, Google Wave is supposed to transform the way we communicate. But so far, only 100,000 people get to actually check it out. If you’re like me, you’re stuck watching those hour long videos that Google posted earlier this year on what Google Wave actually sets out to do. But the videos are dry and academic. So to give you a taste of what it’s supposed to be, check out this video that dissects Google Wave.
Analyzing Analytics: Who They Are and Where They’re From
This post is Part I in a series I’ll be doing on Google Analytics. Today, we’ll center on who visits your site and where they came from.
There is certainly power in knowing. When dealing with a website, a statement couldn’t be more true. Knowing who is visiting your website, what pages they’re clicking, the paths they’re taking to get there, and generally what they’re doing on your site can be absolutely invaluable when fine tuning to turn your virtual reality into real money.
Today, we’re going to look at the most popular website analytics package out there in Google Analytics. We’ll do a step-by-step approach to help you understand the terminology, what it means, and finally what you should do about it.
We’re going to do a case study on the most visited site we have in our profile: StateFansNation.com
Take some aspirin for that Outlook headache (and see me in the morning)
Outlook. By far the best e-mail client out there, but saying that is like saying you’re the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs. Not much. I’ve used it because it’s basically been the defacto standard since the proliferation of e-mail.
Hi, I’m Brian, and I’m an Outlookaholic.
Today, I have good news. If you follow this easy 5 step program, you too can be rid of Outlook and all fo the headaches that come along with it.
Tools of the Trade, Part I
Any person in the web design and developent industry has a set of tools that he or she cannot live without. The same goes for me. I have a bookmark folder on my Firefox Toolbar which is my goto when thinking, creating, testing, or deploying. This seguay’s perfectly into my first tool of the trade:
The Web as a platform
The World Wide Web has become more and more able to handle more and more tasks since it’s earlier incarnations. With a click of a mouse, the Internet has become much more than a tool to display hypertext… it’s become its own development platform. No longer is it just a text and image renderer, rather it’s a device that has limitless potential to solve tasks from the everyday to the much more involved. And it’s all done with Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari (in that order).
Smart collaboration with Protoshare
I recently came across a pretty amazing online app that did not make my Top 10 list but nontheless may very well make the next Top 10. In a nutshell, Protoshare is a web-based wireframe application with a dash of collaboration. We’ve quickly adopted it to become our goto when it comes to site planning and organization.
The collaboration feature of Protoshare make this application worth the money. Protoshare easily outclasses their competition with notation tools and the ability to export to HTML so you can actually “click” through the rough draft of a website. With packages starting at $29/mo, the value Protoshare brings far outweights its cost.
