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How To Track Events in Flash Movies using WebTrends

If your website contains Flash movies that link offsite or to microsites, you may wish to register the offsite link using WebTrends. This article provides an introduction. It assumes a little knowledge of ActionScript, Javascript as well as WebTrends.
This example uses a intermediary javascript function that sits between the Flash movies and the [...]

Google Analytics and SungardHE Luminis

The slides from a presentation I’m giving today at the European Luminis User Group (ELUG) meeting at the University of Greenwich.
Google Analytics and Sungard HE Luminis
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Discover Britain’s easiest to read online newspaper

To find out which of the UK’s national newspapers has the best readability, I chose a news story at random that was recently covered in each of the newspapers.
I tested the readability of each newspaper’s article using my own online readability testing tool.

Online Readability Test

I’ve just released the first version of The Readability Testing Tool.   It takes either a supplied URI, or directly inputted text.
Indices measured

Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease
Flesch Kincaid Grade Level
Gunning Fog Score
Coleman Liau Index
Automated Readability Index.

Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease is a scale of 0-100. A high score means the text is easier to read. Low scores suggest [...]

Find nearest store page using PHP, mySQL and Google Maps

This is a step by step guide for building a find nearest/store locator for free in PHP just like Postcode Anywhere.
It requires PHP and a mySQL database. That’s all.
You don’t need Google Maps, but it helped me populating the database, so I’ve included it for completeness. The example I’m using is UK based, but [...]

jGoogleAnalytics – Google Analytics integration for jQuery

Since I last added Google Analytics to a website, Google have changed from the old urchin.js file to the shiny new ga.js file. This means that I really ought to start using ga.js now.
The University of Nottingham uses Sungard’s Luminis portal system which produces some rather nasty looking URLs. Web analytics for [...]