A Word About Typography
I ran into an interesting error today when I was signing up for a Coroflot portfolio. I had recently read the FastCompany post about how typography choice made a huge difference in readability for Al Gore’s new book, and so the thought was fresh in my mind when I got to the bottom of my Coroflot registration page.
There, they had one of those images of letters that I’m supposed to be able to read, while a computer cannot. Unlike many of the images these days, this one was actually fairly readable – it was just some normal letters, really, on ..read more
Encountering Some Errors
Last week, I finally got around to updating WordPress. While the link that had been showing on the top of my screen for the last several months indicated I could automatically update, it turned out this wasn’t the case. Last week was the first time I had the opportunity to take the time to manually update.
The process took me several tries and many errors before I finally had the latest version of WordPress up and running. I judged this by the fact that my home page appeared, instead of saying “server not found.” Success!
Except, I went online to check my ..read more
Why I Had Zero Visitors and My Identity Stolen
I have encountered two human factors issues lately that have left me confused — some for far too long.
The first of these is with Google Analytics. I used Analytics to find out if there are actually people viewing my site and where these people are from. However, I recently updated the theme for my website, and forgot to include the Analytics tracking code.
It should have been obvious, when right around the same time I rolled out the changes, Analytics kept telling me no one at all was visiting my site, but I also hadn’t posted a new entry ..read more
