Archive:

Many webmasters use Google Analytics to track their web traffic. This is a good idea and can be really useful in helping you to optimise your site and maximise your conversions. However if your staff are constantly browsing your site, they will totally contaminate the data. It is easy to block this though. All you [...]

For a webmaster that relies on their site as their source of income, such as an ecommerce shop - it can be terrible to see the site become unavailable.. if no one can access your site then you won't make any money! However, sometimes its not that your site has gone down but that there [...]

The latest version (1.7) of Magento has been released and features native support of a real enterprise level ecommerce feature: A-B or Multivariate testing. This involves presenting slightly different versions of pages to portions of web traffic and then monitoring the effectiveness of each version. This method then allows you to fine tune your site [...]

Looking forward to going to the PHPNW conference this weekend! Maybe next year I'm going to go over the states for the Zend conference, but this will do for now More Reading:

When creating Javascript, it can be useful to alert out the values of various strings or arrays. You can also use this to confirm if certain parts of loops or if statements are being reached. However - having loads of alert statements in your Javascript can be messy and time consuming to manage. For this [...]

Check out this huge list of online business tools! http://mashable.com/2008/09/21/270-online-business-tools/ More Reading:

There is a lot of buzz at the moment surrounding VPS hosting. For those of you who are not familiar with VPS, or virtual private server hosting - it is similar to shared hosting in that you are sharing a physical server with other web sites. The big difference is that with a VPS, you [...]