http://www.williamswriting.com/blog occasional writings about editing & design Thu, 15 May 2008 13:51:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en An overview of Web site statistics for the new proprietor of a Web site or blog. If anything is unclear or confusing, please leave a comment so I can fix the problem. Thanks! Page tags Site logs How to access your site logs through your Web host Example site log entry There are two ways ... http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2008/tracking-site-visitors/ The current version of the Event Calendar plug-in (3.1.1rc3) doesn't work with WordPress 2.5. A solution was posted to the Event Calendar e-mail list. I've uploaded my patched files here: http://www.williamswriting.com/pdf/ec311rc3patch.zip To use the patch, first download and unzip the Event Calendar 3.1.1rc3 plug-in. Then download the file from my site. Copy the ... http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2008/wordpress-25-and-event-calendar/ Just about ten years ago I laid out a fund-raising recipe book for Gloria Council No. 3 of IDES. I got involved in other things and the project lapsed. Then a few months ago someone called me wanting one of those books. Of course none were to be had. http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2008/sacramento-portuguese-heritage-recipe-book/ From Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox: In our current round of usability research, only 76% of users who expressed a desire to run a Google search were successful. In other words, 1/4 of users who wanted to use Google couldn't do so. (Instead, they either completely failed to get to any ... http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2008/its-only-easy-if-you-know-how-to-do-it/ July 2000 The first Web site for Northern California Publishers & Authors (then called Sacramento Publishers Association) was hosted by one of those companies that offered free sites if their banner ads were displayed at the top of each page. I remember because I built it. That site was built with (gasp!) tables ... http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2007/ncpa-redesign/ Several years ago I designed and produced the Business Volunteers for the Arts newsletter, Partners. I had fun incorporating the organization's logo (designed by someone else) in the nameplate. Later the organization was renamed and BVA became a program within the larger organization, and I had to redesign the nameplate. (This ... http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2007/partners-newsletter-design/ Loraine Holden, author of Don't Get Thin, Get Healthy, wanted the ability to add articles on breaking health news to her Web site. Her previous webmaster set up a blog for her, but it wasn't integrated into her site. So Loraine asked me to add the blog link to her site. http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2007/golden-green-redesign/ Last year I got a call from a prospective client regarding a newsletter project. The client, a state agency with six offices throughout California, wanted to consolidate the individual newsletters created at each site into a single newsletter. First step was a redesign while they searched for an editor. None of ... http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2007/infonotes-newsletter-design/ POD is a process: Print On Demand. Any printshop running a digital press -- such as a DocuTech, an Indigo, an iGen, a Nuvera -- can provide POD services. They print only the quantity you need. There's no minimum of 500 or 1,000 copies. Kinko's and AlphaGraphics are POD shops, ... http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2007/print-on-demand/ It is not okay to take large blocks of writing from Web sites and present that information as your own work. If I find that work you have given to me to edit is not yours, I will return the project to you. http://www.williamswriting.com/blog/2007/plagiarism/