Posted by hatim
Wed, 14 May 2008 12:31:00 GMT
I had been feeling the need to store statistics for my website for some time now since I moved off from a Cpanel host and on to a VPS. I asked around and was suggested that I should try out Google Analytics. I had seen Google Analytics being used in a client project as well so I decided to give it a try. It was relatively easy to setup with a google account (I just had to paste some generated java script code into my main typo theme layout file).
There are many thing which I have not even touched in Analytics but they are all geared towards increasing your site traffic (including managing campgains, checking out where are the traffic sources etc). One can also export the reports in XML and PDF (which is good as this means that I am not bound to Google Analytics for ever , if I decide to move over I will use the XML to migrate my data). I now have a measure on how many unique vistors are coming to my site and from which location. I have yet to find in Google Analytics how to check for user IPs though (ping me if you know how to do that)
Google analytics can be described in one word "awsome".
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Posted by hatim
Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:40:00 GMT
I need to adapt a good CSS and XHTML compliant theme for my website. The current theme is OK, but its not up to par with what modern CSS techniques have to offer. Web design is an art, and although I would like to be able to cook some really cool theme some day , for now I would just use some thing pre- existing.
I have looked into many sites which provide free/open-source web-templates (eg. oswd.org ,openwebdesign.org). One designer whose work I have become fond of is a young Swede named Andreas Viklund. His designs are not only refreshing but also follow strict web and accessibility standards. In is own words why settle for less.
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Posted by hatim
Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:59:00 GMT
It's been long since I vowed that one day I will finish up a Ruby on Rails text book (and incorporate it in my personal website). Between my job and watching downloaded tv shows I have been really slacking up on that goal. Not for long as I am planning to finish significat portion of new Agile Web Development with Rails (2nd edition , Dec 2006) by this weekend.
It seems there are tons of books available out there for both Ruby and for RoR, but Agile Development with Rails seems to be the lead book. Fortunately the new edition does cover Rails version 1.2 so I can forget about learning old RoR ways and focus on the latest available stuff. The first chapter points out that this new edition is essentially a whole new book as alot of stuff had to be rewritten.Hopefully this book will let me cover alot of ground, but like any book on a web devlopment platform, it is no where near exhaustive. So it will be a long ride to mastery of rails.
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Posted by hatim
Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:27:00 GMT
I had been contemplating this for a very long time, but its done now. I had bought domain name from GoDaddy.com three months ago and I finally took the time to buy my self a nice hosting plan with a site called RailsPlayGround.com. As the name suggests this site is meant for Ruby on Rails developers to play with their rails applications.
First thing I have done on this site is to Install Typo as my primary blog engine. It would be nice to build my own blog engine one day, but meanwhile I can post my blog entries here and migrate(clean) blog entries from blogger.
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