Monthly Archives: May 2009

Adding Google Analytics to Joomla

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Here I’ll show you how to add Google Analytics to your Joomla website.

This is for Joomla 1.5x

  • Login to your Joomla Admin
  • At the top select “Extensions” > “Template Manager”
  • Select your (default) template and click “Edit”
  • Click “Edit HTML”
  • ** IMPORTANT** If you were given a choice when you signed up for a Google Analytics account to choose between the new tracking code (ga.js) or the old tracking code (urchin.js) choose the new tracking code.
  • Scroll all the way to the bottom of the code and just before the </body> tag paste your Google Analytics code.
  • Press “Save”
  • I suggest you now go to Google Analytics and check next to your site’s URL. Hopefully you will see “Gathering Data” and you’ll know you were successful. If you see “Tracking Not Installed” try it again.

Good luck. That’s all folks!

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Adding Google Analytics to WordPress

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Here I’ll show you how to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog.

  • Login to your WordPress Admin
  • Under “Appearance” (on the left side) select “Editor”
  • If you have a custom template you will be using index.php otherwise you will be using footer.php.
  • ** IMPORTANT** If you were given a choice when you signed up for a Google Analytics account to choose between the new tracking code (ga.js) or the old tracking code (urchin.js) choose the new tracking code.
  • Immediately before the </body> tag paste your Google Analytics code. 
  • Click “Update File”
  • I suggest you now go to Google Analytics and check next to your blog’s URL. Hopefully you will see “Gathering Data” and you’ll know you were successful. If you see “Tracking Not Installed” try it again.

Good luck. That’s all folks!

 

 

 

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Google Webmaster Tools: Redesigned

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Web site owners now seem to rely heavily on Google with regards to their site. Google Webmaster Tools addresses many of their needs as they provide support for those looking to diagnose errors, improve a site’s visibility and declare preferences on how to handle web site listings.

Google has totally redesigned it’s Webmaster Tools interface. Here is an excellent site for more information on the new look.

I’ve found Google Webmaster tools to be an excellent tool.

 

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iTunes Lyrics Importer puts song lyrics in iTunes

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Besides the album art how would you like to have the song lyrics for your iTunes music files? With the free iTunes Lyrics Importer this is possible. If applicable uninstall any previous version, download the latest version and install.

There are two modes, update automatically or manual.

Ituneslyrics  The update automatically mode will only show the results while the manual mode will show the lyrics from the Lyricswiki project database. The manual mode will also show the album art if found and allow for editing of lyrics.

Because of the project’s huge resource it’s likely that you’ll find lyrics to obscure songs as opposed to the mainstream. That being said pick your mode carefully. If you update automatically there is a possibility that similiar (but wrong) lyrics will be found and overwrite your currect lyrics.

Only available for Windows.

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Microsoft may drop Vista

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All Vista support will end April 2012 but more than likely sales of the software will end before that.

Windows Vista wallpaper (by Microsoft)
Image by Stijn Vogels via Flickr

With the impending release of Windows 7 expected to take place in time for the holidays. It appears Vista’s days are numbered.

Vista never turned out as planned by Microsoft. With it’s bloated code and security holes many consumers and businesses shied away. While many others went back to Windows XP after encountering numerous problems with the Vista operating system.

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Goggles for Google

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Ever hear of beer goggles? Google has a new Gmail feature called Mail Goggles. This feature prevents you from sending out an email until after you’ve solved math problems. If math is your thing then I’m afraid you are just going to have to trust yourself and make the ultimate decision on sending or not sending that email.

You’ll have to enable it in your Gmail account. To do so simply go to your account settings and click on the ‘Labs’ tab. Then scroll down until you find ‘Mail Goggles’ and select ‘Enable’. Now, you can ‘Save Changes’ and go to your ‘General ‘ tab where you can customize Mail Goggles.

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