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Getting started with Google Geo (Maps, Mapplets & Earth) APIs

Posted by admin on October 19, 2008 0 comments

There is a great quantity of quality resources to help get you started on making your first geo mashups. This page links to all those great resources from one easy location. Google Maps API Google Streetview API Google Mapplets API Google Earth API Google Earth Google Maps API Get started with the Google Maps API [...]

User-friendly 404 pages

Posted by admin on August 26, 2008 0 comments

If a user types in or follows a URL that does not exist on a website they are usually taken to a 404 (page not found) page.  Returning a standard 404 page to your user tends to provide a less-than-optimal user experience and may cause you to lose them altogether.  A solution is now at [...]

Using the Google Static Maps API to include maps in your emails

Posted by admin on August 11, 2008 0 comments

The Google Maps API is a great way to utilise Google’s Maps platform on your own website. The standard Maps API, however, does not work in e-mails as it is reliant on JavaScript which most (if not all) e-mail clients block. Luckily there is a solution thanks to the Google Static Maps API. The Static [...]

Python: Inserting characters into a string

Posted by admin on August 3, 2008 0 comments

Disclaimer: I’m a Python newbie … if you know of a more efficient way let me know! I needed to take a sequence of 4 digits (eg 1145) and modify it to look like clock-time (eg “11:45″). After a bit of online (what else?) research I decided to take the approach of converting the integer [...]

Python: removing repeated values in a list

Posted by admin on July 29, 2008 0 comments

PLAIN TEXT CODE: list = ['one', 'two', 'three', 'one', 'one', 'four', 'two'] #convert the list into a set.  An element can only exist once within a set set = set(list) #convert the set back into a list type list = list(set) print list Are those variable names confusing? Let's look at that example again: PLAIN [...]

Testing your regular expression Goal URLs for Google Analytics

Posted by admin on July 28, 2008 0 comments

Your dilemma: You want to create a Google Analytics Goal that defines a Goal URL using a regular expression match.  But how do you test it without having to wait 24 hours for your Google Analytics reports to be updated? Help is at hand: Regular expressions can be tested using the search box in Google Analytics [...]

Google Analytics and Troubleshooting AdWords Auto-Tagging

Posted by admin on July 15, 2008 0 comments

When reading your AdWords reports in Google Analytics, there are many possible reasons why there may be discrepancies between Google Analytics visits and AdWords clicks.  If you see wildly different numbers for visits and clicks, the likely culprit is that the AdWords auto-tagging parameter is being stripped from the landing page URL. What happens when [...]