- Author: Bryon J. Noel
We took some time to think through the best way to improve categories for the ANR Blogs. This took a while as there are many things to consider and many different ways people use categories in the ANR Blogs. In the end we decided to go with an auto complete system for the categories. So as one types in categories, the categories that have already been used in the Blog will be listed as categories that can be chosen. When a category is selected it will be added to the current list of categories.
When choosing a category from the list the mouse or the keyboard may be used to select a category. When using the keyboard; up / down arrow keys highlight the selected category and the "Tab" or...
- Author: Bryon J. Noel
Do you notice anything new in the screen shot below? No? Yes? Maybe? This is like the game where you have to figure out what was changed in the picture. See anything? If your interested in your Blog stats I'm sure you may have noticed it. No? Not Yet? What? you want a clue? Ok, here's a clue....
Thin Green Line. Is that enough of a clue?
Ok. Ok. I'll jump to the point. We have added "Mobile Hits" to the Blog stats. This counts every single time someone with a mobile device views one of your Blog posts. Since adding the mobile Blogs we though it'd be nice to know how much traffic we get on mobile devices.
One question to ask is what is...
- Author: Bryon J. Noel
It time for another Blog update. This time the Blog update is on the Site Builder 3.0. People have really liked the Blog Showcase. So we decided to give people the option of using that view within their Site Builder 3.0 websites. Here's some examples:
This extra wide view can only be sen when the left navigation has been removed.
This is the normal full page size.
For pages with multiple columns the Showcase view adjusts it's number of columns accordingly.
- Author: Bryon J. Noel
I just got off the phone with someone out in "the field" somewhere in this great state. He was wondering, "How do I people to follow my blog?" This is a very important question and if something is hard to do we've lost 75% of our audience right there. Luckily we've spent a lot of time re-doing the subscription system for the ANR Blogs, and we are still looking into other ways to make it easier to follow the Blogs.
The new subscription system is really quite easy to use. Every Blog has a link in the menu named "Subscribe". Simply click on this enter your e-mail and security code and your done! You will receive an e-mail confirming your subscription.
Believe it or not it get's even easier... If you're already logged...
- Author: Bryon J. Noel
The magic word of the day is "Statistics", more specifically Blog Statistics. Yes you heard me right. Blog Statistics! Now your asking me what is this picture of Google Analytics for? I'm glad you asked! Typically we have a program called Smarter Stats for statistics. Unfortunately, for this program will not work properly for the ANR Blogs. So we decided that it would be better to use Google Analytics for gathering stats. Google Analytics is a free, easy, and very powerful website statistics package. The only drawback is you need to go to Google to see your stats. Which really is not that hard at all. So with this in mind we wired the ANR Blogs to work harmoniously with Google Analytics.
So how can you add Google...