Archive for November, 2005

Google Analytics: Update 2

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

Well, still no news really; 29 hours and still no data. But then it’s free, so what am I complaining about? Well, it sounds like the old paying Urchin customers are suffering from the same lack of data as the rest of us. A Limited Beta I remember when Google released Gmail in its first [...]

Web Standards and The New Professionalism

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

Molly.com has a great little post on Web Standards and The New Professionalism, a look at how anyone who still designs web sites with nested tables shouldn’t be allowed to call themselves a web professional. At the end of the post, she says: Today, I want to express that I believe that this new professionalism [...]

Google Analytics: Update 1

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Seems Google’s new service is struggling to hold up against the massed onslaught generated by a mention in Matt Cutts’ blog, SlashDot and many others. Currently I’m struggling to get the administration panels to even load, which is unusual for Google, who’s massive bandwidth and good programming result in web applications that are usually very [...]

Penny Arcade goes Web Standards

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Penny Arcade is my favourite online comic by far; but, sad to say, the HTML behind their site was still firmly living in the 90′s. Well today that has started to change. I loaded up their site, and it looked completely different and more importantly, it loaded up in a fraction of the time. I [...]

Google Analytics

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Matt Cutts has a post about the new Google Analytics. When Google bought Urchin, I immediately went to their site, assuming it would be free (yes I’m a cheap bastard, but I don’t receive enough visitors to warrant paying $199 a month for a web analytics program). It wasn’t and Urchin appeared to continue with [...]