My thoughts about the world and the web
Mail forms allow your visitors to get in contact with you in an fast and easy way. You can also avoid the parts of the email spam when avoiding to mention your email address on the blog.
The WordPress plugin PXS Mail form offers you a sofisticated and easy to instal / use mail form.
Continue reading “WordPress plugin: PXS Mail Form”
After more than 6 years with my old notebook (a HP Omnibook XE3 with a mobile PIII processor, 256 MB memory and a 20GB hard disk) I finally bought a new laptop.
My wish list for the new computer was:
Quite a list, right? So, as always in life, I had to make some compromises. I had to sacrifice a few of the requirements listed above, but I think I have found a product that came quite close to “my ideal notebook”. Continue reading “Review: Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Si 1520”
Once your website is running you will be probably be interested in who is visiting your blog, where do the come from, etc. So you need some statistics about your visitors. I can recommend the web metrics package from Google, called Google Analytics. While it is not too complicated to insert the code you will need for using Analytics, I can recommend the WordPress Plugin Google Analyticator from Cavemonkey50. It inserts the code either to the header or the footer of your blog. I would recommend (as for all external scripts) you should insert the Google Analytics code in the footer by enabling the option “Footer tracking code”, so slow or unavailable Google servers will have almost no influence on your website’s performance.
Timo Aden, responsible for Google Analytics in Northern Europe, is writing (in German) a blog about everything concering Google Analytics (http://www.timoaden.de/ [de]).