The day after I post a simple overview explaining what a bounce rate is, I find an article where someone who specializes in web analytics has posted a survey to find out what different people's bounce rate is for their site. I can tell you that the different sites I manage range from about 8-12% (Corporate Intranet) to 55-60% (this blog) - blogs generally run higher, because they have several articles on a page, so you don't have to follow pages to get content. I give a range only because … [Read more...]
Revamped Site
As many of you may know, because I talk about it often, in addition to working in the Internet industry, I also like to teach about it. Well the term just started, and I wanted to do a redesign of the site. I usually have a different site for each of the colleges I've taught at. For example I used to teach at a local for-profit school called IADT. Now I am teaching at a local community college, Seminole Community College and I have a separate site for them. You will often hear about me … [Read more...]
How I’m updating my site
One thing I've noticed, is that while working on other companies web sites, the one web site which tends to get updated the least is.... my own. This apparently isn't specific to me, as I've talked with many other web designers who have the same issue. I've even heard of web designers hiring other web designers to do their web site. Since it has been a little while since I did a major update to my site (this past summer when I added the blog), I decided I should be performing some updates. … [Read more...]
Dayspring Community Church Web Site Update
I am proud to announce the updates for Dayspring Community Church's website. As they just merged with Plymouth Church, it is fitting that they should have updated the UI for their site. Updates include: Restructuring the menu to be easier to read Improving the Search Engine Friendliness of the site Modification of the page layout Optimizing the web pages to load faster Adding a Web 2.0 style picture gallery … [Read more...]