Web Design Ireland

Following on from this news..Google have also now incorporated a visual tool for analysing referrals. It's still in beta, but uses a fancy flash mapping for showing visitor depth. Look at all the pretty colours. ;o)

I've been playing with some neato javascript bits and bobs recently - and the wealth of open source bits and bobs out there is amazing. This post is a little roundup of some things Javascript that I've spotted (and duly bookmarked) on my travels, that will defo come in useful ...

You might have heard some people talking at length about Google new segmentation reports. Having been a bit of an obsessive when it comes to all things Analytics - I noticed this option for UK and Ireland people earlier tonight. So here are a few useful reports that you can ...

After having a few projects recently that needed pagers for datatables in ASP.NET - I decided to trawl through a few sites looking for some alternative pager styles. Smashing Mag had a great article on paging - but alas no css or HTML to be seen. Hopefully this will be ...

One of the newest SEO strategies that are in use today is linkbait, if your SEO optimiser is still talking exclusively about on-page optimisation and keyword stuffing - 1995 called and they want their meta tags back. I've had a few people ask me recently what exactly linkbait is, so ...

We've all had them. The old school client, who think that as a customer they are entitled to use you as a glorified computer operative. Unfortunately - whilst it is easy to just "do as they say" for an easy life, adhering to every client whim is often not in both parties best interests, and can often lead ...

from the Google Analytics blog.. The Data Export API enables you to create software programs and applications using all read-only report level data from Analytics. The data exported can be used in any number of ways, such as building custom dashboards, creating data visualizations or interfaces, performing offline analysis, and combining/mashing ...

I've been having a bit of a clear out recently and there are a few computer books and bits and bobs I've found that I've no real need for. If any of you guys want to pay postage, and can link here with the term "web design books" (follows please - ...

I've posted previous about the importance of tagging. Well, here's one more cool reason. Wordle - takes your blog RSS feed, or a string of words you have created, and makes a neato mashup of the tags you have used. Here's what it has generated for us: The implementation is a bit ...

I'm a bit of a obsessive compulsive Ego-searcher. In fact I put together a wee tool a while back for combining some searches around the blogosphere, and spitting out an RSS feed for it. Knowing when someone has done you the favour of linking to you or when someone is ...