As you look at this post, you will notice that the theme I am using presents a large content area (left) and a sidebar (right). The content area is 580px wide.

With that knowledge I set the media settings (Dashboard/Settings/Media) as follows.

Remember to click the Save Changes button not shown in this image.

Thumbnail

The ‘Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions (normally thumbnails are proportional)’ check box tells WordPress to CROP the image exactly to 150 x 150.

Decide what size thumbnails you would like to use. Depending on your theme, these might also be the images that show up in your post teasers on your home page and in your archives. StudioPress themes give you additional image size options. These are set elsewhere and I will cover those in a separate article.

Tip: While WordPress does a great job of creating thumbnails, sometimes the crop is not exactly what you want. In that case, crop the image first in Photoshop (or whatever software you might be using) then upload it again.

Medium Size

For the medium size, I choose a width that I think will work well for left or right alignment inside a post. I usually set the height to double the width. This tells WordPress to SCALE (not crop) the images based on those settings while maintaining the aspect ratio of the original image.

Aspect Ratio 101: The aspect ratio of an image that is 1000 x 500 is 2 to 1. The aspect ratio of an image that is 500 x 1000 is 1 to 2.

For example, if I load an image that is 1024 x 756 WordPress creates a medium size of  250 x 184 (250 being the maximum allowable width).

Note: If I loaded an image that is 550 x 1200, WordPress would create a medium size of 229 x 500 (500 being the maximum allowable height).

Large Size

For the large size, I choose a width that will be 10px to 30px less than the width of my theme. I want a nice big image that will fit ‘centered’ inside the theme with a bit of padding around the edges which is really important if you are going to use captions. Again, these settings tell WordPress to SCALE (not crop) the images and maintain the aspect ratio of the original image.

For example, if I load an image that is 1024 x 756 WordPress creates a large size of  550 x 406 (550 being the maximum allowable width).

Here is the same image with a caption

Large Centered Image - With Caption

Note: If I loaded an image that is 550 x 1200, WordPress would create a large size of 504 x 1100 (1100 being the maximum allowable height).

With these settings, when I add an image to a post here at synaptic i, I have all of these choices available to me at the click of a button.

Tip: If none of those image sizes work for you, try loading your large size image and then click on it. You will see two icons appear. Click the one of the left (the other one deletes the image).

Note: You can also grab the edges of the image (little white squares) and manually re-size. I don’t use this option as I find it hard to maintain the aspect ratio of the image. That said, I know some folks who use it all the time and get great results.

Now you will see this screen. Use the Size option to scale the image down. You can repeat this over and over until you get the result you want.

Changing Your Existing Media Settings

If you decide to reset your media settings after reading this, WordPress will create the new image sizes for you as you upload new images. It does not re-create your existing images. However, there is a way to do that using a great plugin called Regenerate Thumbnails by Viper007Bond. I will be writing about this plugin very soon.

I hope this has all made sense to you. Please feel free to ask me questions in the comment section below. Also, if you have tips of your own, please share them with us!

Photo Credits

Image of frustrated woman from the Microsoft Clip Art Collection

Please note that the screen shots are taken from WordPress 3.3.2 with the TinyMCE Advanced plugin active. If you are using a different version of WP and are not using TinyMCE Advanced, your screens may look a bit different but you should still be able to follow along.

Linking To External Content

First, highlight the text you want to link. For example, suppose you are writing a piece about Mozart and want to provide a link to additional information on Wikipedia.

Now, click the link icon in the tool bar.

This will open the link window.

There are 3 things to do here.

1. Enter the URL. ALWAYS use the full URL … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart. If you don’t include the http:// part, the link may not work.
2. Give the link a title. This will show up as the hover text if someone places their mouse over the link in the document. It’s also good for your SEO.
3. Decide if the link should open in a new window. The rule of thumb I use is: If it’s a link to a site other than my own site, I open the link in a new window. If it’s a link to a page or post at my site, I open the link in the same window (un-check the box)

Now, click Add Link and here is the result.

Click here for more information on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Linking To Internal Content

If you want to link to internal content, WordPress makes it very easy for you. We’ll use our subscribe link as an example.

Follow all of the steps above except this time when the link window opens, click on “Or link to existing content”

 This opens up a window below with a scrollable list of your content. If you have a lot of content, just type in a search, in this case “subscribe” and then click on the appropriate content.

Notice how the URL gets filled in for you as does the title. You can edit the title to your liking.

UN check the “Open link in a new window/tab” option as we want this to open in the same window.

Now, click Add Link and here is the result.

Remember to subscribe to synaptic i!

I hope this has been useful to you. Please feel free to ask questions or make suggestions in the comments area below.

Photo Credits

WordPress Logo Thumbnail – GNU General Public License

I soon discovered that TinyMCE Advanced does much much more!

This plugin adds 16 plugins to TinyMCE, WordPress’ wysiwyg editor: Advanced hr, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, Context Menu, Emotions (Smilies), Full Screen, IESpell, Layer, Media, Nonbreaking, Print, Search and Replace, Style, Table, Visual Characters and XHTML Extras. Together these plugins can add over 40 new buttons to the toolbar, which is now two rows plus one hidden row. Some of the new features added by this plugin are:

1. Font size and font family selection.
2. Support for making and editing tables.
3. Advanced list and image dialogs that offer a lot of options.
4. Search and Replace.
5. Support for XHTML specific tags and for (div based) layers.
6. Support for adding and editing inline css styles to any element.

~ From LaptopTips.Ca

TinyMCE Advanced is written by By Andrew Ozz at LaptopTips.Ca and is available for download through your Dashboard /Download / Plugins / Add New.

Once its installed, you can find it’s settings in Dashboard /Settings / TinyMCE Advanced.

Just drag and drop the options you want onto the editor tool bar and select any advanced options you might want to use. Click ‘Save Changes’ and the next time you edit a post, you will have those new options available any time you need them.

TinyMCE Advanced is an excellent piece of code that I consider an essential plugin.

You can read more about TinyMCE Advanced here.

Photo Credits

WordPress Logo On Thumbnail – GNU General Public License
Plug – Image from the Microsoft Clip Art Collection

Unless our authors provide us with pictures that they have taken, we always look for images that are either creative commons, or public domain and even if the license does not require that we provide attribution, we do so anyway. We want to give credit where credit is due. It’s the right thing to do.

I am often asked where to find free pictures. There are a number of different sites that we use to find images. All have their own distinct advantages. Over time, as you get to know them and how their user interface works, you can find suitable images quickly.

Here are some of the sites that we often use when looking for royalty free images.

Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons is quickly becoming one of my favorite sites to source great images. You can search by topic or you can just enter your search into the search box. Each and every image you will find has information about the image including the license and permissions details.

If you are browsing Commons for the first time, you may want to start with Featured pictures, Quality images or Valued images.

This is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons and is considered one of the finest images.
It was awarded second place in Picture of the Year 2009.

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons – Creative Commons

Microsoft Images And Clip Art Collection

Another site we often use is the office.com image site. This site has many superb images, illustrations and some great clip art. Unlike creative commons and public domain images, the images here are: “owned either by Microsoft Corporation or by third parties who have granted Microsoft permission to use the content.”

According to Microsoft: “If you use Microsoft Office.com or the Microsoft Office Web Apps, you may have access to media images, clip art, animations, sounds, music, video clips, templates, and other forms of content (“media elements”) provided with the software available on Office.com or as part of a service associated with the software.” – reference point 17 on this page: Microsoft Service Agreement

I also suggest that you read this page carefully: Use Of Microsoft Copyrighted Content

This site has some filtering options in the left hand sidebar that lets you select for illustrations, photos, animations and sound as well as image sizes.

Here is a great example image from the Microsoft Office Collection.

Image Credit: Microsoft Images

Wikipedia

Like Wikimedia Commons, every image has information about the image including the license and permissions details. Moreover, Wikipedia is a veritable gold mine of great information. Wikipedia also connects to Wikimedia Commons. Just be careful in there … it’s REALLY easy to get sidetracked!

Looking for The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci? Look no further.

Image Credit: Wikipedia Public Domain

MorgueFile

A morgue file is a place to keep post production materials for use of reference, an inactive job file. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use. ~ MorgueFile

I was recently introduced to this excellent resource by one of our guest authors. Their license summary for each image is directly below the image. They state that ‘attribution is not required’. We do anyway. Like I said before, I feel it’s the right thing to do.

Here is an image that came up in a search for ‘sad’ at MorgueFile

 Image Credit: By: grietgriet at MorgueFile

Flickr

Clearly, Flickr has a huge and excellent inventory of images. Why do I place them so far down the list? One word. Licensing.

If you search at Flickr, there is a search drop down option that lets you select ‘The Commons’. Do a search for ‘bridge’ and then select The Commons.

You would think that the images would be under a creative commons license or public domain. In fact, many are, but many are not.

Case in point. “http://www.flickr.com/photos/14992506@N03/6935643624/“

This is a bridge found under a search for ‘bridge’ under The Commons. I cant show you the picture because … well …

So, be careful. Many of our well meaning authors send in images that they think are ok. Often, they are not. I ALWAYS check the Flickr images now. Here is another The Commons search example with the ‘license via Getty’ logo.

If you have lots of time on your hands, Flickr has some great photos. But, when a majority of the images I find (or receive) would violate a license, I tend to look  elsewhere. All of that said, this is not a reproach on the quality to be found at Flickr and I will continue to use it as a source.

Here’s a beauty of Rideau Falls, Ottawa, Ontario … in 1869!

Image Credit: Rideau Falls, Ottawa, ON, 1869 by Musee McCord Museum -  No Known Copyright Restrictions

Google Image Search and Yahoo Image Search

Both of these are very similar in that they will bring up images that are linked to a page or a post at a website. Click on the image, and you go to that web site where more often than not, there is no attribution provided for the image. Both have filters you can use but the filter choices have changed a lot in recent months and are IMHO not all that useful.

BUT

Both are PROOF POSITIVE of the importance to your SEO to use the Title and Alternate Text fields when you upload your images. No one is going to search for dscg3232.jpg. If it’s a photo of a Labrador Retriever, give it that title. It also looks way better as a mouse over.

For example. Hover over the image above of Rideau Falls. It’s file name is ’2918568397_beac7c5af8_o-550×385.jpg’. If I didn’t use the title field, that is what would show up in the hover and that is what Google would index. People might actually search for Rideau Fall. They won’t search for ’2918568397_beac7c5af8_o-550×385.jpg’.

Consider this. Depending on the day, up to 30% of the search traffic at Life As A Human comes from image search. Why? Because at a minimum, we use proper image titles.

Some Closing Thoughts

Irrespective of where you get your images, my advice is to ALWAYS give attribution at the end of your article or under the image including a link to the image source. It’s a bit of extra work but:

• It’s good netiquette (net etiquette)
• It gives credit where credit is due
• It builds links out from your site
• It’s the right thing to do (I think I may have mentioned that a few times already)
• It’s good karma!

I am sure there are many other sources for royalty free images out there in cyber space. If you know of some good ones, please leave us a comment with a link and share it with our readers.

On January 28, 2009, synaptic i was launched into cyberspace with this description and intent:

It is a small island on this great digital ocean we call the internet that provides inspiration, motivation, guidance and hope.

I want to help and bring people together who also want to help and that is exactly what I am going to do.

Between January and the end of September 2009, an average of 9 posts per month were published on these pages. Readership was growing. But, since then, I have only published 8 … what happened?

In July of 2009, an idea came to me. It was the seeds of Life As A Human – The Online Magazine For Evolving Minds. In large measure, Life As A Human was and is a greatly amplified version of the original intent at synaptic i. As such, it was and is a much larger commitment time wise. With over 2000 articles now from the minds of over 100 authors, it has achieved much of what I had originally intended. Indeed, it has surpassed it.

So, what to do with synaptic i?

In order to launch and maintain Life As A Human, I had to learn many new skill sets. I started receiving requests to help others build their WordPress sites and this has become a whole new direction and business for me. I have now built over 50 sites and helped many others with questions relating to WordPress, plugins, SEO, CSS, PHP and custom forms. I have trained and helped people from all over the world using Skype.

I think it is safe to say in this post that my clients, many of whom I can now call friend, are very happy with the service I have provided.

With that in mind, I have decided to add a new focus here at synaptic i and begin to publish articles aimed at helping bloggers who use WordPress get more out of their blogs. I’ll cover topics like:

• WordPress Tips
• Essential WordPress Plugins
• SEO
• CSS
• Studio Press Themes and Genesis Framework
• Forms
• Graphics
• Social Media
• Writing
• Page Layout
• More …

Some of these posts will only be available to subscribed (paid) members. Membership details will come shortly but the cost will be minimal … or, as I often say, ‘cost effective’.

I will not be the only one writing these posts. We will have contributions from many excellent writers. The posts will not be missives. They will be short, to the point and open for comments and questions. The intention is to become a valuable resource with content written by people who have expertise in these areas. It is also to help like-minded bloggers connect and learn from each other.

I am not abandoning the Inspirations, Food For Thought, Business Tips, Creativity and  Just For Fun categories. I’ll continue to add posts in these categories and also provide feeds to posts at Life As A Human that cover those topics.

So there it is. A new direction for synaptic i. In the weeks to come, look for site changes, new features, and of course, new content!

I hope that you will join me on this new leg of the journey. If you have not yet subscribed, now would be a great time … hint!

Cheers,

Gil

Photo Credit

Image From The Microsoft Office Collection

We just launched My Business Info.

It’s a new Synaptic Systems initiative launched last night, July 17th 2011 at 8:50PM.

What’s it all about you ask?

Developing a web site can be an expensive proposition. For many, it is beyond their budget and the cost benefit or value proposition is pretty weak. Moreover, many people just don’t have the time to acquire the knowledge and learn the skill sets required to have an effective web presence, or build a web site!

My Business Info has been created to provide businesses and individuals an opportunity to have an effective web presence, in the form of a web page, at an affordable price. For as little as $60.00 per year (introductory price), we’ll easily take you through the process of creating your own web page with an aim to get it well listed with the major search engines.

My Business Info will soon launch some new features as well, like micro sites, and hybrid profiles. I’ll be posting about those soon.

Please surf over to My Business Info, have a look and let me know what you think!

http://www.mybusinessinfo.info/

Photo Credits

Image From The Microsoft Office Collection

First Posted At Synaptic Systems Inc. on July 18th, 2011

I have been trying to find an easy solution to this problem. One that would allow me to ‘cherry-pick’ stories and add them to a custom feed. A few weeks ago, I searched again and found a solution that I think works really well and is easy to implement.

It comes from the good folks at IceRocket in the form of a free service they call RSS Builder.

If you look in the sidebar on the right, you will see an RSS feed called “Custom Video Feed”. I’ve set it up as an example for this particular post. If you hover over each item in that list, you will notice that they come from different sites. Two are from YouTube and one is from Ted.com.

Sweet …a custom feed!  So .. how to do it? Just follow these steps. It’s really easy!

Build a Channel

1. Surf to http://www.icerocket.com/
2. Click on RSS Builder
3. Click on Register Now (This service is absolutely free of charge.)
4. Once you have completed the registration process, go back to that page and log in.
5. Click on Add Channel
6. Give the Channel a name – Like “Videos”
7. Give the Channel a link – Your Blog/WebSite URL goes here.
8. Give the Channel a Description – Like “Great Videos From Around The Web”
9. Set the “Minutes Until Channel Refresh” to 10 (more on this at the end of this article)
10. Ignore the rest for now and click “Save Configuration For Channel”

You will get a “Channel Was Added Successfully” message and then you will be sent to a page called “Channels You Have”

Add Entries To Your Channel

1. Click Add Entry – (I will use a Youtube video as an example.)
2. Entry Title – (Copy paste the title of the video ) – William Kamkwamba – Building a Windmill
3. Entry Link – (copy paste the link.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-wzpqE6HHo&feature=player_embedded
4. Entry Summary – (Either Write a short summary or copy paste the summary from youtube)  When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book.
5. Ignore the other fields for now and click “Save Item”

There you go. Item 1 is entered. Enter as many as you like!

Publish Your Channel

Now – go back to your channel listings by clicking the “My RSS Channels” towards the top right of the page.

Here is a screen shot of what that screen looks like.

Click on Publish on the appropriate channel listing . This will bring up a screen with a bunch of different options. As this article is specific to WordPress, I’ll explain what you need to do next.

The first screen looks like this.

Just copy this part: http://rss.icerocket.com/xmlfeed?id=437360

Now all you need to do is go to your widgets, drag the RSS widget wherever you want to show your new custom feed. In the field that says “Enter the RSS feed URL here:”, enter the link you copied ( http://rss.icerocket.com/xmlfeed?id=437360 ) and set the widgets other settings to your liking. If you don’t give it a title, it will use the title you gave your channel.

I prefer to use the “Better RSS Widget by grandslambert“.  I do so because it has a few extra options including having the links in the RSS feed open in a new window which in my opinion is a must!

Now all you have to do is add items to it and they will magically appear at your site. That said, the default RSS refresh in WordPress is set to 12 hours so you will have to wait for 12 hours to see it appear.

Unless you do this

Change the WP RSS Widget Refresh Rate:

I found the solution to this at Joe Casabona’s blog Casabona.org. Read the post titled:  QT: Increase the WordPress RSS Widget Refresh Rate

All you need to do is add a line of code to your theme’s functions.php file. It’s pretty easy!

So there you have it! Your own custom RSS feed. I hope you have found this useful. I am sure that this is not the only way to this. If you have seen other ways, please share them with us .. we’re all ears!

Photo Credits

RSS Icon – Aaron Ovadia

As I was walking our Chocolate Lab Jazz, a thought came to me. It was not a new idea but something I had thought about a year ago and promptly forgot to write about.

What Can I Do With One Hour?

I want a beautiful yard, with great flower beds, nicely pruned trees and shrubs, a pond, a shaded sitting area and perhaps a few pathways. That’s the ‘vision’. On a ½ acre, that sounds like a ton of work right. But what if I ‘committed’ 1 hour every day of ‘focused’ time towards that vision? Rather than think about it as a huge job, what would happen if I approached it in 60 minute increments? Have you ever done the math on this?

(1 hour a day) times (365 days) divided by (a 40 hour work week) equals 9.13 weeks.

Yep, that’s right, over a one year period, a one hour a day commitment gives you a little over nine work weeks! I could get a LOT of yard work done in nine weeks.

What about 15 minutes? What could I do in 15 minutes? Well, I could practice a certain technique on my guitar or maybe work on a kata for karate. That would yield the equivalent of 2½ work weeks of practice which would have a profound impact on my playing or my kata.

Interesting, don’t you think? If you have a vision, and you commit focused time to it on a daily basis, you will see that vision become a reality. Deepak Chopra gives us another way to think about this when he suggests that we take control by “putting our attention on our intention.”

We reap what we sow!

This is really not a new idea mind you. Many have written about this and if you look at people who have accomplished great things, they all had a vision and committed focused time towards the realization of that vision, often, one small piece at a time. I believe that if we have well defined and realistic visions, the only things that will prevent us from reaching them are a lack of commitment and focus on our part or the chaotic nature of the universe throwing us a curve ball. We have no control over the latter. If it happens, we get back up on our feet and start over!

So with all of that said, I will re-frame the question. What Will You Do With One Hour? Or fifteen minutes?

If you cant think of anything, give me a call. I have lots of yard work to do

Photo Credits

Image from the Microsoft Clip Art Collection

© Gil Namur, 2010

A few years ago, I started blogging. Almost immediately, I signed up for a Google Analytics account. I soon discovered that there was an enormous disconnect between what Google Analytics reported vs. my server stats. The reason for this disconnect can be explained by differences in the way they measure traffic.

WordPress, Google Analytics (and others like Quantcast & ShareThis) all capture data through the execution of a script, or page tag or some similar mechanism that runs whenever a visitor loads a page at your blog or website. The problem with this is that an increasing number of users now have script and java blocking enabled on their desktop-based browsers. They also block cookies. Many mobile devices are not captured by these mechanisms for the same reasons. Consider this as well. Most government offices and medium to large sized businesses block cookies and java script by default. Whether people at work should be surfing to your site is an entirely different issue. The reality is; they do!

The server side stats on the other hand capture everything. They miss nothing (well actually they can miss the ‘odd’ thing due to caching).  The problem with the sever stats however is that they report every search engine, spider and bot that hits your site.

What does this disconnect look like?

Here is a snapshot of the Life As A Human traffic for April 22^nd as captured by WordPress Stats and by our sever stats.

Look at the enormous difference in page-views. Our Google Analytics stats reported similar numbers of page-views as WordPress did. The lion’s share of the difference between the two is due to spiders, bots and also the way that pages are loaded within the WordPress framework. Reality is much closer to what Google and WordPress reports. By the way, Life As A Human  had 184,951 hits that day! Ahhh .. for the good old days!

So how close are WordPress and Google to reality?

I have been experimenting with the use of StumbleUpon Advertising to drive some traffic to the site. I started using StumbleUpon for advertising at synaptici.com many months before we launched Life As A Human. In short, it costs 5 cents per referral to your website or blog. So, for $5.00 you can buy 100 page-views and target a specific demographic/geographic. It’s a great service and companies like Warner Brothers, The Huffington Post and NBC, use it, with much deeper pockets than ours!

I noticed when I started to do this that when the campaign was done, StumbleUpon would report having sent 100 referrals. My WordPress stats however showed only 90 or 95. As mentioned earlier, this is due to users using script blocking. I wasn’t really that worried about a 5 or 10% discrepancy. Recently however, I noticed this delta was growing. I decided it was time to run a simple test to see if I could measure the difference.

The Test

This is a very simple test that any one can run from their blog or website.

• I created a hidden page. I called mine ‘hidden test page’. Pretty original eh!
• I set it to: no index / no follow – so that search engines, spiders and bots could not see it and affect the test results.
• I e-mailed 50 people and asked them to participate in the test by surfing to the page (once) and letting me know via e-mail when they had. I also asked them to let me know if they had surfed to the page on a desktop or a mobile (or both) so I could capture the difference between the 2. Alas, this part of my test failed as I forgot to ensure I was capturing that data on the server side. Dang! However, this did not affect the main results.
• I let the test run for 5 days then took the page off line.

Here are the results

That’s a pretty significant delta, don’t you think? The server data contains no spiders or bots. It lines up ‘exactly’ with the number of e-mail replies to the test.

Ok, so what does that mean to me?

• If you have no intention of monetizing your site, other than the morale boost of realizing that you are getting more page-views than you thought, probably not much. According to this test, if you take your WordPress reported page-views and add 33.33% to them, you will have a more accurate total.




• If you are a small to medium size publisher (website or blog) and you are monetizing through ad placement mechanisms, then, at least according to this test, you ‘might’ be leaving 33.33% of your impression ad revenue on the table. I don’t believe there is much you can do about that but knowledge is always empowering. Certainly, the advertiser won’t be in a hurry to see this change. They‘re getting more bang for the buck! Why change that? If you have some ideas, please, share them in a comment.




• If you are a larger publisher with your own marketing team and you are handling your own ad placements, you probably already know about this and have taken steps to make sure you aren’t leaving that much on the table by using your own, more sophisticated analytics tools. If you haven’t, you really should.

From a bigger picture point of view, I believe what this trend shows is that in the coming years, this issue will most certainly need to be addressed. There are several solutions but none will be perfect. Please understand, I am in no way suggesting that there is something nefarious about this. This is not a conspiracy to keep dollars out of our pockets. It is simply an artifact of current traffic measuring methodologies.

Likewise, this is not a shot at Google Analytics or WordPress Stats! If you don’t have a Google Analytics account, you really should. They have done an amazing job of developing a very powerful tool that can provide you with a wealth of information about your traffic. Not using it is to deprive yourself of data that can help you grow in ways you might not have even imagined. That people and companies block cookies and scripts is not their faults.

Another  Test – Part 2 – Google Analytics

As I mentioned, this was a simple test and it is in no way conclusive. Further and much more robust testing is needed to more accurately quantify the actual delta between the traffic measuring mechanisms mentioned in this article. This is simply a snapshot. I just happen to believe it is indicative of the current realities associated with the measurement of website traffic, and I know I am not alone in this belief.

I will be running another test sometime soon. I will be looking to capture the difference between how mobile devices and desktops are captured. I suspect that we will see a much higher percentage of missed mobile devices. This test will compare Google Analytics data against the server and WordPress stats. Actually, I did include Google Analytics in the first test but the test data yielded +/- 12% inaccuracies so I am not comfortable presenting that data. What I can tell you is that like WordPress, the Google Analytics results were significantly below the actual total.

• A huge thank you to everyone who participated in this test. I hope that you have found the results interesting and more importantly, useful. I also hope you will participate in the second test!




• If you would like to be a part of the test group for the next test, please leave a comment indicating that you would like to participate.




• If you have run these types of tests yourself, please, share your knowledge and let us know.

Photo Credits

Thumbnail – Digitage Web 2.0 – Creative Commons – Maureen Flynn-Burhoe

© Gil Namur, 2010

Within a week of that idea, our team was built, and we have been working hard ever since to turn that idea into something real. It has been an honor and a privilege to work with this vibrant and dedicated team. Six months later, this is the fruit of their labor. It’s February 1, 2010 and our doors are finally open.

Life As A Human has begun!

Please surf to this link to read the rest of this post!
http://lifeasahuman.com/2010/laah/life-as-a-human-has-begun/

Photo Credits

Public Domain Photo – courtesy of PDPhoto