It’s confession time. Firstly, I have a blog. Secondly, it has a very high bounce rate. Now I’m not trying to make money from blogging or anything like that, but I do shed a small tear when I think: “Most people stop by for a quick visit, and then leave without looking around.”
Now there are a lot of articles out there that give pointers on how optimize your blog/site to reduce bounce rate, so I’m not even going to try and talk about that here. If you are after a good source of information, however, I’d recommend checking out problogger. What I am going to talk about though, is how you can use Google Analytics to determine where to focus your efforts. Google Analytics is very good at showing your overall bounce rate, but you can get more detail and start targeting particular posts and keywords to reduce that bounce rate.
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posted on the February 6th, 2010 No Comments »
I am using Unfuddle for keeping some of my projects organised, and recently wanted to push a chat log into a unfuddle notebook so it could be discussed and reviewed by other people on the project. In unfuddle I am using Markdown syntax, which I think is fantastic. Formatting a Google chat log by simply copying and pasting from my gmail account into Unfuddle, however, needs a little help.
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posted on the June 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Django is a pretty interesting looking web application framework available for python, and a lot of the inspiration for Google AppEngine (in terms of the python implementation at least) have apparently come out of use of Django. Presently AppEngine has out of the box support for Django 0.96 but if you want to get up and running with the latest stable version of Django you have to jump through a few hoops.
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posted on the May 27th, 2009 No Comments »
There are a lot of good texture libraries currently available online at the moment. Some which are absolutely top-notch. One of my personal favourites is Lost and Taken but there are numerous list posts (like this one at Web Design Ledger) which point to more.
Now these textures are great but you are probably going to have to use some really large images if you want to use them on your site, and I really didn’t want to have to. Thankfully the GIMP includes a filter to make an object seamless, which means you can tile it effectively as the page background of your site.
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posted on the May 1st, 2009 No Comments »
The MSI Wind U100 is a fantastic ultraportable, but for some reason in Australia is only available pre-installed with WinXP preinstalled. Now I’m definitely not a windows hater, but I really did want linux on my ultraportable so I installed Ubuntu 8.10. The process itself was quite painless, but did require a few little tricks to get started and then complete with a fully functional ultraportable under linux.
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posted on the November 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
Having been through the experience of getting MySource Matrix up and running in on an Ubuntu Linux (8.04) server installation (which took a little bit of effort); I thought I’d document the process so others could use the info.
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posted on the August 31st, 2008 1 Comment »
