Starglider Systems Blog

I’m a bit impressed with the new Google Analytics Easy Dashboard Library . It is an incredibly easy way to build a custom Google Analytics dashboard, or just adding a few items to your existing business dashboard. Very cool!

Recently MailChimp posted about their mobile e-mail research .  A lot of people read their e-mails on cell phones – 57% in Japan and 41% in the US, so it starts to be a bit consideration. Lots of suggestions on the report: Use a instapaper URL link to make it easy for people to read your [...]

WebdesignShock just published an article with a nice collection of  CSS button Sets . Very much worth checking out.

This is neat a bookmarklet to instantly check your traffic on Google Analytics . You just enter your GA profile ID on the article page, and drop the link on your bookmarks. Then to find the visits and source of the visits for a page (on that GA profile you entered!), just click on the bookmarklet and [...]

Pinterest is all over the news lately (although some people complain about the traffic converting poorly). Now MailChimp has announced their Pinterest integration . If you use Pinterest, looks like a nice, simple way to share your pinned photos with your e-mail subscribers.

Replacing the -9999px hack shows a simple way to replace text with images that doesn’t use the text-indent:-9999px hack. It simply uses the following CSS: .hide-text { text-indent: 100%; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; } Very simple and avoids the 2 problems with the other technique – very long lines of text can flow into the container, [...]

CopyBlogger posted an interesting article on how to monetize and get Pinterest traffic. The tips I found most useful were about having interesting images with fonts that are too small for reading through Pinterest – thus requiring the viewers to go to your page. But there are many more in the actual article.       [...]

AWeber just posted an article with 4 Ways to Build Your Email List With Facebook Timeline . Timeline is a major change for anyone with pages on Facebook, and this article shows a few things you can do to ease the change. I was surprised to hear that cover photos can’t be promotional or have a call [...]

10 Awesome Shortcodes For Your WordPress Blog has a nice collection of code snippets that can be useful on your WP site. My favorites are related posts , content for Registered Visitors Only and Disable auto-formatting .

When I moved this blog from my main site, one thing I forgot till now was removing the site name from post titles. Adding the site name to each post title is mostly pointless, and even worse, it gives you less of a keyword density for SEO. It is very easy to tweak the title [...]