In the Know: Week of 4/27/2012

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Every day I make an attempt to read a variety of articles relevant to web, Internet, business and technology. Some will make it to the site, and some will miss the cut and make it to this list. I will provide you the link to the story along with some final thoughts.

In the Know: Week of 4/20/2012

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Industry news was all over the board this week. Macs are becoming targets of some serious trojans. Klout is giving brand pages, and much like the service businesses are unsure what to do with it. Twitter wants everyone to just get along. People’s privacy and behavioral advertising become and infographic. Finally there’s a good description [...]

Don’t Always Use functions.php

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WordPress makes it easy to modify your site’s behavior via the functions.php file in your themes. Many tutorials across the Internet often suggest to apply code snippets and examples to this file. While your new updates may function, the functions.php file is not always the best fit.

How to Set Up a Basic Google Analytics Goal

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Recently I detailed how to configure Contact Form 7 to be tracked with Google Analytics and ultimately that’s only half the story. Tracking the form submissions in the manner described only creates a virtual page which you can see as a “pageview” within GA. This is useful, but what if you wanted to see how [...]

In the Know: Week of 4/13/2012

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Twitter is stepping up to tackle some of the biggest spam bot suppliers around. Facebook makes a $1 billion purchase, and people aren’t quite sure if it was the right choice. The Internet is slowly corroding your brain, but you can stop it. Google+ rolled out a new look, and it was met with a [...]