Freelance Technical Digital Media Consultant
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A Simple News System For Basic Websites
Mar 10th
This is a very simple news system with comment support which is ideal for adding simple blog/news system functionality to any website needing that kind of system. In the past I'd usually use wordpress as a pre-built solution for adding this kind of content to a site and although you get a lot of extra benefits by using wordpress (as a result of its plugin system) there can be a lot of issues with tweaking the wordpress theme to suite the site. The method of embedding this system is so simple that it can be used easily within any site template and as such it's perfect for quickly adding blogging or news system style functionality to previously static sites or E-Commerce systems where an attempt at tying in wordpress could be very messy
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How to visualise your webserver logs as a map of user progression through your site content
Mar 8th
I love web stats and for a long time now (last 4 years or so) I have been analysing web stats with Google Analytics, which is probably one of the best apps for assessing basic stats (provided the web browser being used support javascript). For the most accurate stats I also use AWStats (which has provided great results for the last 7 years) Within the last year or two I have also employed the use of ClickTale for the analysis of user interaction. Today however I found this website which provides another potentially very useful tool/method to add to the web analysis arsenal which essentially allows you to render your website access logs as a network diagram allowing you to visualise user paths through your site in a way that was only really possible through intuition. The article explains a lot more on how to do it but it's certainly something I'll be giving a try in the next few days!
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How to visualise your webserver logs as a map of user progression through your site content
Apache Live Log (ALiveLog)
Mar 7th
A really useful tool for providing simple stylised views of apache webserver log files via the browser. Ideal for providing a level of log file monitoring/analysis to novice web developers or website owners who don't want or need to see the raw log file text, but might need to keep occasional tabs on how the webserver is behaving as part of a bigger website control panel style app. Though somewhat useful for picking through the access logs, applying it to the error logs is where this becomes particularly useful
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