Sunday, March 8, 2009

Can you say 'Analytics'?

I added code that is now collecting more data on tikiwade site usage that we will use to monitor the growth and usage of the site. Data mining of this sort is often referred to as analytics as it is used to build a profile of a web site and to try to determine what draws users to a particular page or part of a web site. We will be using this data to monitor the sites growth and usage. I am also collecting search terms that we will use to see how people search and what they are searching for on tikiwade.

I loosened up the character checking for listing titles.If you are a geek like me you can now enter HTML in this field when creating listings, but more importantly you can enter in non alphanumeric characters. A few more categories have been added, again please drop me an email at wade@tikiwade.com if you feel a specific category should be added. I also created and added 2 new default photos, the ever popular "No photo Available" photo and the ""Photo Coming Soon" photo. Please email any photo ideas that you may have to me as well, I will review them and add them if I like them :-)

I also found a fun little bug it in the search code that took a while to track down. It was a misplaced parenthesis that was causing quite a problem as it was preventing searches from working properly, but searches still ran without any errors...FUN!

We continue to see listings being added to the site. This is great, please keep adding stuff and help us all to make tikiwade successful.

Wade

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