Wi-Fi + 3G 1st Generation

Height: 9.50 inches (241.2 mm)
Width: 7.31 inches (185.7 mm)
Depth: 0.34 inch (8.8 mm)
Weight: 1.35 pounds (613 g)
Storage capacity: 64 GB flash
Memory: 512 MB DDR2 RAM[12]
Display 1024 × 768 px 132 PPI 4:3 aspect ratio 9.7 in (25 cm) diagonal XGA, LED-backlit IPS LCD[9]
Graphics : PowerVR SGX 535 GPU[13]

APRIL FOOLS!!

hahah! I can’t believe you clicked over to view this page. Even though it’s a first generation IPAD I still can’t bare to part with it, sorry.

Hope You Enjoy the Holidays & Have a Happy New Year!

Setting up analytics to monitor website performance and marketing efforts is one of the most crucial and beneficial things you can do to your website. Many host providers provide out-of-the-box analytics tools. Make sure you are getting enough from those metric measures.

What to look for? The obvious is to track volume, visits and uniques. Sometime this is the only thing that is offered from the boxed auto inclusions from your host-provider. That is NOT enough. Sure you what to know how many customers are visiting your site as well as returning. You need to take a deeper look!

What is driving those customers to visit and navigate through your site? Here is where, referrals, keyword analysis, and campaign management are key. Getting insight into this information can help your future marketing as well as usability efforts, by learning from your analytic trends. The data collected from what ever analytic tool you decide to use should allow you to create a dashboard of key information you should monitor at a regular basis. Some advance set-up can also allow you to view path analysis to capture drop points. Discovering these can help you solve for navigation issues, customer confusion or improve your marketing sell message.

There is so much you can do by taking time to collect important data, analyzing and more importantly taking action as a result of your findings. I cannot stress enough on it’s importance. I’ve worked with several corporate analytic applications as well as smaller and sometime free-based apps. If you cannot afford those robust corp programs, don’t dismay. There are many options out there.

Since I moved from hosting providers last weekend I am now revisiting my choices. I’m off my soap-box!

This weekend was spent moving the new site to it’s new home.  After spending several hours trying to install wordpress, which seriously shouldn’t take that long just to set-up the install – I finally figured out that my hosting provider was not the ideal environment for my business.

The previous version of this site was built off static html pages, a few scripts and flash files but for the most part a non-scaleable architecture.  After several years with my hosting provider, I ended the relationship.  The good thing was that I used another hosting provider for my other sites.  I tested my install with the other provider and sure enough all worked peachy!

If a hosting solution is not able to grow with your needs and expectations you have to throw that loyalty out the door!  I opted for a new provider who is recommended by wordpress and prices seem fair.  Hopefully this relationship will last!  It is new, but so far so good.

I’ve been struggling to decide what platform cms to use for my sites.  I had installed Drupal for one of mysites but couldn’t figure out the add profile component.  I then unistalled and switched to Joomla, which I can’t say has been easier to set up with all the components that I need.

I decided to tryout wordpress for my freelance site. God knows it needed an update, considering I hadn’t touched it in more than four years.

So here I am, after a few hours of setup and deciding on design, plugins and structure wordpress has been a breath of fresh air with it’s ease of use.  I may search what other plugins are available and use for all my other sites I need to launch.

What do you use?  If it can be setup easily and scaleable for additional functionality, let me know!!