Well, the long awaited (umm, maybe nobody except me longed XD) template update has finally be done!
After yesterday’s “vibrant writings” on our photographic society’s annual exhibition, I found that it seems my “writing mode” has been switched on. While I should start focusing on writing my thesis proposal, I opened Firefox and logged onto this very blog again, trying to add an analytic script / program to it, due to the inability for wordpress.com blogs to be added into Google Analytics……
So, well, I have done some surveys ahead, on which counter should be used. And from some google searches that it turns out the seemingly most popular hit-counter / analytics hybrid, SiteMeter‘s analyzer will include a third-party code which is not intended for collecting analytic report data. Some sites reports this as “SiteMeter has become SpyMeter”. Well, since I use AdBlock Plus in my Firefox, so if this is case, SiteMeter will not be an option.
So what’s the second choice? Someone suggested that StatCounter might be an alternative choice. So I registered it, and successfully installed it onto my wordpress.com sidebar, with the W3C compliant option on. Though the recent 500 detailed visits log seemed to be too small (for my pixnet site), yet my wordpress.com site (the one will be using this analytic tool) has only 300 pageviews over one month. Seems the 500 quota is not a problem for this site.
And then, I recalled that knight has another kind of statistical counter on his blog, it’s called “SEO-Stats”. Compared with other tools like Google Analytics or StatCounter, this one does not need you to install any javascript into your page. Instead, it calls to a php file on SEO-Stats’ page, which makes this analysis simpler yet safer. No registration needed, and it remembers your all-time visitor numbers! But it has only one problem, the abbreviations. This SEO-Stats is written by a Japanese fellow and does not contain any further information about the abbreviations he used in the statistics in English. It’s all Japanese. So for who cannot read Japanese, all these abbreviations without explanation should be confusing. Thus to whom may concern, I guessed the abbreviations in the SEO-Stats box out from the Kanji and Katakana in SEO-Stats site. They stood for the following:
GIP: Google Indexed Pages
GBL: Google Back Links
YIP: Yahoo! Indexed Pages
YBL: Yahoo! Back Links
MIP: MSN Indexed Pages
MBL: MSN Back Links
TUV: Today’s Unique Visitors
TPV: Today’s Page Views
YUV: Yesterday’s Unique Visitors
YPV: Yesterday’s Page Views
AUV: All-time Unique Visitors
APV: All-time Page Views
So that is the story of the new badges and counters on my sidebar now. Along with the PageRank checker and feedburner subscriber buttons installed earlier, they now are in a quite harmonious state, and looks nice also. Besides that, I registered del.icio.us and added the del.icio.us widget, and tag cloud at the bottom.
Okay, so now my sidebar looks “okay”, and my header starts to be “not okay”. But since I’m so lazy a person, and this site is content-oriented (under my definition…), I do not want to write my CSS from scratch. And since K2-lite is a good theme, I’ll just keep it. If it’s possible I won’t even change the font’s colors! So I started looking for anything looked blueish in my photo archive…and fortunately, I found several in my recent works. Thanks Matt that wrote a crop tool in wordpress.com, I just simply uploaded the image and done a perfect crop on-site. No photoshop needed :p
So this is the end of this page-long narration. All I wanna say is, doesn’t this site looks much more better now? XD
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