» Goal Conversions in Google Analytics

June 11th, 2008 Sammy Russo

One of my clients decided that we they needed to start tracking certain goals or conversions on the website via Google Analytics. So I set up the the allotted conversion goals / funnels, but I needed more.

According to Google Analytics documentation or Help Center, they say that if you need to more than four goal conversions… set up additional profiles. So I did.. I took the snippet of java script code (we’re using the Legacy Tracking Code - urchin.js) and pasted it along side the other script. I waited a couple of days and noticed that the second profile wasn’t collecting data.

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» Upgrading Wordpress Using Dreamweaver

January 6th, 2008 Sammy Russo

Dreamweaver is my primary web development tool… I use it for writing code and for FTP. There are a lot of folks out there who swear up and down that Dreamweaver FTP is aweful. Personally I love it and I’ve never, ever had an issue. Sometimes I just need to things different.

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» Dreamweaver Templates into Wordpress Themes

September 25th, 2007 Sammy Russo

This tutorial explains how to convert your existing Dreamweaver template into a Wordpress theme. The following process would be more accurately portrayed as merging The Kubrick Theme core code with your Dreamweaver Template so that you may skin your blog to look like your main website. All you need is a good working knowledge of HTML and CSS, but a very basic understanding of PHP.

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» Simple Maintenance - Backup Everything

January 6th, 2007 Sammy Russo

Backups are so important, yet one might not appreciate them until you something catastrophic happens and you actually need one. I currently administer several Word Press Blogs (this being one of them) and working on launching another here very soon… I found it very educational to actually go through the entire backup and restoring process of one my blog sites.

Fortunately for me I have a development blog that is password protected and strictly for the use of a web team that I work with. We use it to post design samples, project lists and assign tasks to the individuals involved. So we decided that being the WebDev blog is not live so to speak that we do a practice run of restoring it from backup files so we know the process if anything crashed on one of our live sites.

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