Who’s been reading my blog then?
On a more positive note, of course, apart from checking out abuse of the site, it’s fun to browse the stats and discover visitors I hadn’t noticed before, and see where people come from and what they most often visit. A page on early modern dress and fashion is unexpectedly popular, but I suppose that tells you something about the popularity of re-enactment. There’s something humbling about referrals from sites in languages I can’t understand (but who obviously understand mine). Sadly, no entertaining search terms. (You’d think with all the sex and violence lurking around on the site…)
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Does this mean you are using spyware to track the trails of surfers, or are just referring to some guestbook or other? I’m about to start my own webpage and would be interested in what you mean. All I know is that it’s possible to know a surfer’s ISP provider and, I believe, the previous site visited, but what else?
Can you see what ISP I’m with? What’s on my desk? Which bunk I’m on?
Comment by Steve — Tuesday, 14 September 2004 @ 10:31 pm
No worries, I can’t tell what colour underpants you’re wearing. I’m using the stats packages provided by my web host; I was following links to referring pages (logically, if web pages have linked to me they must have visited at some point), that kind of thing. I was interested in seeing what were the most popular sources (Cliopatria, I love you guys). I don’t see that much info about visitors themselves; I can see what browser they use, that string of numbers that I believe, if you know how to find out these things, does tell you the ISP; I can’t remember what else I can see without logging in, but not very much (I might check in the morning when I’m more energetic). If you’re paying for it, web hosts should provide these things as standard, or if you get free web hosting that doesn’t include it, there are lots of free stats services out there.
Comment by Sharon — Tuesday, 14 September 2004 @ 11:44 pm
I’ve just read the blurb on Word Press. I guess this is what they call a “content manangement system” and you just feed in your text and are then offered a number of possible styles. Is that right? It sems a lot easier than building it by scratch. I’m thinking of using a similar package.
Is this like MS Front page in that it has a back page with all the html coding on it? Sorry to get ITnerdish on this but the “eejit proof” qualities on my site are going to be tested to the max.
Comment by Steve — Thursday, 16 September 2004 @ 10:58 am
I’m not really the best person to ask these questions… when you install it WP comes in a basic default style, but in the documentation are links to a whole range of pretty style sheets that clever people have designed, which you can download: eg here; this blog is based on one called Mochary.
However, though better people can correct me if I’m wrong, WP is not like Front Page (or some types of blog software like Movable Type or Blogger), because it doesn’t generate static HTML pages at all. Erm, I’m not sure how to explain this clearly, but what you’re seeing are ‘dynamic’ database-driven pages. I think the benefits are that it’s quicker to load and takes up a lot less file space.
Whatever you go for, read the instructions very carefully before you start. Check that your web host provides the required packages (eg MySQL, Perl) to support it. Be prepared for things to go horribly wrong somewhere along the line, and make sure you have the documentation and support pages close at hand.
Comment by Sharon — Thursday, 16 September 2004 @ 11:05 pm
Well I’m reading your blog because you pinged Syndic8 one minute before I did and appeared in the list just below my own blog.
Comment by DaveVH — Sunday, 19 September 2004 @ 12:57 pm
Ah, all the ways we stumble across new blogs…
Comment by Sharon — Monday, 20 September 2004 @ 12:05 am