As of February 1st, I am a full-time contractor, meaning I am no longer the Web Developer at California College of the Arts. Now is an exciting and scary time. It was my choice to leave and start fresh on my own (Exciting), but I chose to leave a comfortable, secure position in order to pursue an unknown, financially-risky path that doesn't come with health insurance (Scary).
Here's a bit of Javascript you can use on your website's 404 page so that when you look at your stats in Google Analytics, all the missing pages that your visitors tried to visit are grouped into one place. This technique can be useful as it gives you a single place to look in your stats for any bad URLs that people visit often, perhaps as the result of a mistyped link, or a deleted page.
Tonight marks the launch of my latest project, a website redesign for the National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (NLGSF). Please give it a look.
NLGSF is a chapter of the larger National Lawyers Guild, an organization whose aims are:
If you use Google Analytics to track traffic on your websites, then you've probably run across the annoyance of seeing mysterious hits to pages that don't exist on your website. Common examples I've seen are like:
Earlier today I downloaded a bookmarklet from Sumaato Labs that allows you to easily geotag your photos on Flickr using Google Maps. I tried it on a few of my photos, and was really impressed with how easy it made the geotagging process.
A website devoted to my web pursuits...
The plan is to use this space for showing the web development and design work I'm doing, and to blog about my projects. I'll also be writing tutorial articles from time to time, and the occasional post to point out something interesting I've found.
Some of you may know of my previous website sphericle.com. That site will continue to exist, minus the section on web-related content (which will now reside here). I'm hoping that this separation will give that website a better sense of self.
