Learning
Learning is a very wondeful thing. I have been at the school of learning in the past few weeks, most of the learning has been through books of course, but then, where else are we told to go other than to our books. I know it is easier to learn from Youtube and other video sources but then I digress.
I have learnt something about how some companies are run, how to design websites with Dreamweaver, and how to mock-up a website with Photoshop, while at it, I learnt about using the photoshop mock-up to create a website in Dreamweaver and it was one of those Aha! moments, it just blew me away. After that I delved into the world of WordPress. Yes I know I am already using WordPress on my site. But after the few things I just learnt, I asked myself would it be so bad to try and develop and WordPress theme and donate to the WordPress repository as a means of giving back to the system. And that is how the journey began, the journey to become a wordpress theme developer.
I have already developed a theme with assistance from a tutorial I read in a mag and I could see my name as theme developer and all that but I need to do something from the scratch which will require learning some PHP, CSS and improving my HTML as well as Photoshop manipulation but then it is good so far though I have found Coda 2 an intersting piece of software but still learning to use it.
Now in this quest, the first question is this, How do you convert a Dreamweaver site to a WordPress theme? I have seen some stuff out there and I hope to post tutorials when I learn anything in this quest but I will appreciate any help.
Thanks
Google Analytics and Bounce Rates
February 13, 2014 by Jide Ajayi • Life • Tags: bounce rate, gmail, google analytics, website •
It is quite interesting when you read an article on the internet and the author makes reference to some new browser or operating system that is yet to be released as making a hit on their website. If you are like me who am a casual user of the web you are like wow that is so cool, how do they do that? Well there are a few ways to achieve this marvel of technology one is to make sure you go over every single visitor log for your website at the end of each day to know what is really happening.
While it will work I will not advice it as you will end up doing nothing again especially if your website has a lot of visitors. The other way to do it and I dare say a way a lot of people are doing it is to allow Google help you by using Google analytics.
Google analytics is a metrics-measuring tool that is quite capable. It can measure almost everything as far as it has assess to your website. It knows who visited your website, from where, with what browser, on which operating system, how many pages they visited, how long did they stay on each page and so on the list is almost endless. There is another item on that list that really caught my attention when I was reviewing the data from this site; the item is the bounce rate.
Google defines bounce rate as “the percentage of single-page visits (i.e. visits in which the person left your site from the entrance page without interacting with the page).” When I saw that and looked at my bounce rate it immediately got me thinking about things that I could do to improve the rate for the website.
Looking at website administration from the perspective of the casual user, there is a lot that need to be put in place to ensure that you get the satisfaction of adding value for your effort as well as securing the website and maximizing the feedback opportunity from tools like Google analytics.
So if you run a website and you don’t have such a service to monitor the performance of your website, then you need to open a gmail account and setup your analytics account and link it to your website immediately if possible yesterday.
Take care.