photo credit: laurenatclemson Though it comes once every four years I've always had a certain fondness for Leap Day. Although nothing special to me has ever happened on it. Now that I'm in business I have a love/hate relationship. February has fewer days to be productive to earn the paycheck, but leap day tries to give a little back to you. With busy schedules it's like finally get that 25th hour in the day - if only for the month. It serves to remind me that I need to be more productive … [Read more...]
posted on January 18, 2008 by
bounce rate survey
The day after I post a simple overview explaining what a bounce rate is, I find an article where someone who specializes in web analytics has posted a survey to find out what different people's bounce rate is for their site. I can tell you that the different sites I manage range from about 8-12% (Corporate Intranet) to 55-60% (this blog) - blogs generally run higher, because they have several articles on a page, so you don't have to follow pages to get content. I give a range only because … [Read more...]
posted on January 13, 2008 by
Revamped Site
As many of you may know, because I talk about it often, in addition to working in the Internet industry, I also like to teach about it. Well the term just started, and I wanted to do a redesign of the site. I usually have a different site for each of the colleges I've taught at. For example I used to teach at a local for-profit school called IADT. Now I am teaching at a local community college, Seminole Community College and I have a separate site for them. You will often hear about me … [Read more...]
posted on December 31, 2007 by
How I’m updating my site
One thing I've noticed, is that while working on other companies web sites, the one web site which tends to get updated the least is.... my own. This apparently isn't specific to me, as I've talked with many other web designers who have the same issue. I've even heard of web designers hiring other web designers to do their web site. Since it has been a little while since I did a major update to my site (this past summer when I added the blog), I decided I should be performing some updates. … [Read more...]