Anyone who’s serious about blogging – regardless of what it is they blog about – has found themselves consumed in the business of analyzing traffic. If not financial reasons or effective political messaging, mere vanity compels us to find out more about the people who visit our pages, especially since there are so many people who view blog after blog without commenting or contributing.
But between your web-host’s analytic software, log files, link popularity checks and a whole host of other sources, you’d think that getting to know your audience would be a lot less difficult than it’s proven to be. [...]
God, I just love, love, LOVE Firefox. Is there a web developer alive out there that disagrees?
While updating my Firebug extension, I noticed that one of the bug fixes for 1.0.1 was a compatibility issue with another extension, the HTML Validator.
“Pray tell,” I asked, “what could this machine be?” Well, as it turns out, its yet another breathtakingly useful tool in the arsenal of a web developer, this one validates a page based on the W3C standards without posting it to the W3C site for the results:
Html Validator for Firefox and Mozilla
HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that [...]
Whilst playing around with the latest development on the DragonFlyEye.Net site, I’ve rediscovered a plugin I installed a while back, FireBug. FireBug is a plugin for Firefox that. . . well, . . . it does so many things, its tough to put it in one sentence. Actually, they did a good job of it here:
Firebug – Web Development Evolved
Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
Even this is something of an understatement. I [...]
One point I did not mention on the other blog, which is definitely an SEO advantage of using the “sans w” address redirect:
Generally, your Pages Per Visit covers your entire website, but when ranking which pages get hit the most, once again www.yostuff.com is different than yostuff.com. Since Google Webmaster Tools allows you to set a Preferred Domain, it is logical to assume that the form of the domain that the Googlebot crawls is important to how it ranks pages. In fact, the above-linked blog post more or less spells this out exactly.
So, get out there, set your preferred domain [...]
Note: this has been cross-posted to dragonflyeye.net for the sake of informing my hippie bloggin’ buddies.
OK, so that’s just a humorous side-effect, but funny, nonetheless. . .
Anywho, I’m pretty exited about my latest little tweak to this here website, and I thought I’d share. A very wise personage who runs a site called Corz.org has a fantastic tutorial on the mod_rewrite Apache directive which has been something of a bible to me in the last few months as I endevoured to create the latest version of DFE.
Foremost among his/her tutorials of interest is the two-part examination of the mod_rewrite Apache [...]
LifeHack.org turns in a great roundup of tips on keeping readers and making a blog usable. The basics? Keep it readable:
Six Improvements to Your Blog – lifehack.org
Format Your Text- Take the extra time to write “pretty” posts, such as it were. Make it so that people can read what you’re typing, and do your best to keep the tone communicative, and not too dense. Translation: big fat paragraphs of dense text usually don’t make for “friendly” blog reading. (Look at David Byrne’s journal. Great stuff, but soooooooo long.) And get friendly with things like bulleted lists, shorter and [...]
