2 cool sites I recently found
These are totally unrelated to each other, but they are both neat things I discovered lately! :)
1. www.scrapblog.com is a site that lets you blog with pictures in a scrapbook style. Its WAY sweet! You can get sooo incredibly creative with this and its really a lot of fun with all the little things you can do. The application is super user friendly and very easy to create, which is a super plus! AND...you can easily transfer pages to Flickr so you can download the pages as images to your computer!!! This opens us so many possiblities and uses for this. I recently made up a page to use on an invitation for my dad's 75th birthday.
Isn't this cool? I wanted it to look like an "old" scrapbook so I chose the brown background. All the detaily things (vines at corners, stamps, burn marks, embellisments, picture "frames", etc.) were things I was able to add, move around, and play with to make it look this this. I had soooo much fun putting this together and it was very quickly done and transferred to Flickr. I was pleased and amazed at this. Two thumbs WAY WAY up! :)
2. www.statscounter.com is a site that I got off crankypants. (thanks, babe, you rock!) Its a free traffic counter you can add to your blog. BUT this counter tracks not just the amount of hits, but actually tracks, if you care, per day, how many new visitors, how many returning visitors, where visitors are from, and which pages they visited. Just because people don't comment, doesn't mean they are not reading!!! Its quite enlightening, if you are curious. And you can customize your counter to be visible or invisible. Check it out!
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I'm still considering the counter. I may be too nervous to know. You know?
Yes, but where would you put the stat counter code so that it generates appropriate data? Vox has fairly limited access to insert code in top level page-space.
Hey J! As I just told elly, I put the code in my sidebar widget space. When you set up your counter code, statcounter asks you a bunch of questions to help you customize your counter and also asks you about the site you are putting it on. For the site URL, I put my general vox URL and it is able to track everything from just that URL. I can see who visits which page in my blog and how many pageloads, where in the world they are from, etc.
I put mine in a few days ago and have been checking it to see if and how it all works and its tracking stuff great. Surprising results, too. There are lots of visitors that I get that just read and don't leave comments. Cranky said the same thing when I read this on her blog. She said she was surprised how many visitors she is getting and that they are reading her old posts. I am getting the same thing.
Thanks, Robbie! :)
With the counter, I think you would be pleasantly surprised. I know I am. I am finding out that I get a lot of visitors that come read/find stuff but don't leave comments. I also find out which stuff is still getting hits. For instance, my egg salad recipe from like 6 weeks ago is still getting hits!
See ... I tried that. General Vox URL for the input. And then placed in widget area.
I went to my home page, and then check stat-tracker. It logged the visit to what would appear to be a subpage representing the widget area (url was a0.vox.comblahblahblahblah).
So it didnt really look like it was tracking to the actual top-level page loaded, but the page that is the widget. (if you click the link in stat-tracker, the only thing is on the resultant page is the widget).
I came across your page earlier and saw this and finally had a chance to try it out here. Previously tried to use sitemeter, and that didn't work out as it had in the past. Thanks again for posting this. :o)
haha...I am not that technical so I am not really sure all the stuff you are throwing at me..haha!
I put in my personal blog URL (not sure if you meant that by "general vox url") which is http://foxsydee.vox.com/ and it worked great from here.
When in statscounter, I click on the graph icon and it gives the how many visitors graph. Then from there, at the left hand side are other statistics to choose from. I like picking "popular pages" . From there I hit the black arrow "drill down" button to get more options. I like "visitor paths" which gives me which specific pages were loaded by IP address. As IP addresses are unique, each IP represents a visitor and it shows me the URLs of the pages they visited by and time.
...I don't know if you did all this or not....so I have no idea if I am helping....I hope I am.....but I am not technical and I figure since I figured it out, anyone should be able to! lol! :)
You can post it to Vox if you want, but not directly. You can post it to Flickr once its published. From Flickr, you can copy/download the image to your own computer. And from your computer, you can upload the image to Vox. That's how I got the image above for my dad's bday.
NO! You don't have to axe Maukie! If you see, I still have my visual DNA in my sidebar. I put the counter code in the widget code box with my visual DNA and put it after the visual DNA code. You don't see the counter, but its working away behind the scenes! :)
So, Maukie can stay! :)
I'm so glad about Maukie - I'm getting used to having him around -!! Thanks for the help - ! :)