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Jan 06 06

You can learn a lot about visitors to your site from studying your log files. There are numerous statistics services (like Google Analytics) and software packages (like Mint) to help you view your information in a variety of ways. But Crazy Egg (still in beta) provides more immediate insight into how users actually use a […]

Monitor Visitor Clicks With Crazy Egg

Jan 04 06

Robert EllisDesign6 Comments

Tag clouds, those folksonomic “heat maps” you see on Flickr and Technorati, are becoming increasingly popular. And while some people, like Jeffrey Zeldman, compare tag clouds to mullets, I think they have their uses.
And here are two easy ways to add a tag cloud to your blog:
Use a Plugin
If you use Textpattern to publish […]

Adding a Tag Cloud to Your Blog

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