New Drachsi website now open

The re-designed website for Drachsi is now open. This will be updated over the next few weeks, stay tuned for more.

Posted in: on Sunday, August 22, 2010 at at 8:38 AM 0 comments

New Website to be launched end of August

Long overdue

I have been extensively involved with a companies existing website and on-line services. This has delayed the update. There are still resources to add, but as it is designed to explain the type of customer support services I provide, the basic structure should work ok. Any comments?, please use the contact form. The full address will been announced on launch day.

Drachsi

Posted in: on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at at 9:57 AM 0 comments

Using Google Analytics to track pdf files

Many webmasters use Google Analytics, but if you are like me, you would like to know how many people download certain pdf files. This answer is applicable to the latest version of Analytics.

Your normal code will look like this,

< script type="text/javascript" > (spaces added)
 var _gaq = _gaq []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); < /script >

This should always be but just above the < /head > (spaces added)

On the page with the link to the pdf put this in the main body text,

< a  href="yourlink/20-297.pdf" onclick="javascript: _gaq.push(['_trackPageview','yourlink/20-297.pdf'])"target="_blank">Download as a pdf file< /a > (spaces added)

When you access your Google account you will start to see the page info after 24 hours.

Drachsi

Posted in: on Monday, July 19, 2010 at at 1:35 PM 0 comments

Using visualisations to buiild an infographic

Visitors and customers expect more from a modern website. You may have a wide range of data or text which can be turned into an infographic using a free tool hosted by IBM. The link to get you started is at Infographics, have fun, let me know if you use this solution on your website.

Drachsi

Posted in: on Saturday, June 26, 2010 at at 7:30 AM 0 comments

With Google Caffeine, you need to update more often

Today, Google announced the launch of Caffeine, a new web indexing system. To quote from the information received,
"With Caffeine, we analyze the web in small portions and update our search index on a continuous basis, globally. As we find new pages, or new information on existing pages, we can add these straight to the index. That means you can find fresher information than ever before — no matter when or where it was published."

To see how Caffeine looks, here is the Google diagram.


To maximise your Page Ranking and to ensure your Website, Blog, Forum posts are found, you must update often. For more information please visit the Google Blog at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/

Drachsi

Posted in: on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at at 1:00 PM 0 comments

How to find out if you are being talked about

I use the pseudonym Drachsi, the reasons are listed at Drachsi. One of the problems is how to locate sites that find your comments and views interesting. There is a way which I found very useful. It's free, simple to use and very effective. SocialMention  The other well known alert service is provided by Google Alerts.

Hope it helps

Drachsi

Posted in: on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at at 7:57 AM 0 comments

Using a Feedback Widget to help your visitors

A simple method to help customers and visitors ask questions, make comments or send a private email is to use a Feedback Widget. You can see the version I have integrated into this Blog, this can also be used on normal websites.

This creates a better visitor experience and shows you are interested in them. Here is how the ideas and comments looked when posted by the feedback widget. Community-powered support for Europe This is using the free BTTradespace service.

Posted in: on Thursday, May 13, 2010 at at 7:10 AM 0 comments

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