Google Website Optimizer and WordPress

Today I started a test using Google Website Optimizer on WordPress. The manual way of doing this would mean you would need to create 3 different headers and input the correct tracking code in each. While it is not a ton of work, it is a pain in the butt. The better way to do…

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Styling your drop down text

With the basic wordpress install, you are able to nicely style the menu colors etc, but I have run into a problem several times where I use the same color to highlight which page I am on as the color of the background of my dropdown. So if I had a blue nav bar, my…

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Contact Form 7 Clear textarea

Last time we talked about how to clear the input labels on Contact From 7 using a slight hack to the code. This is great for simply using input labels, but what about a text area? As I quickly found it, it doesn’t work. Why is doesn’t work is because the text area is controlled…

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Completed Google Analytics Essentials

I just finished the Google Analytics Essential Training on Lynda.com. I thought it was well done and I did learn a few new things to help me better understand web traffic and how we can use GA to increase sales. The course is about four and a half hours, so it does take some time,…

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Clearing Input Forms with Contact Form 7

Many websites today will not have labels next to their input boxes anymore. Instead they place the text inside the input box. Contact Form 7 plug in can do this out of the box, but the user has to erase what is in the box before they can type in their information. This is a)…

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