Staff Card Sort

Well, we've released the card sorting exercise to staff. We'll see how it goes. I'm looking forward to their feedback... as long as it's all positive, harhar.

LiveStats vs. Google Analytics

When comparing Visits for our current web statistics software, LiveStats, and our possible new web statistics solution, Google Analytics, I noticed quite a discrepancy:

• Google Analytics reported 9,692 visits on September 4, 2008


• LiveStats reported 13,376 visits on September 4, 2008

I learned this is the case because Google Analytics user sessions expire in 30 minutes and LiveStats expire in 15 minutes. I suspect I'll run into a lot of differences like this.

I've started documenting my findings on our staff Intranet for posterity's sake.

Card Sorting Redux

We've decided on OptimalSort for our card sorting project. Staff testing begins the week of September 9. Patron testing begins on October 1. Good times.

I also submitted a proposal to speak at 2009 Computers in Libraries conference. If accepted, my topic will be a portrait of this redesign. Why? Because I wasn't stressed out enough.

Drupal 6.4

After much hubbub I have upgraded to Drupal 6.4. I know for the future that I will need to do upgrades through Simple Scripts. Because of my inexperience, I pretty much had to re-setup vfranklyn.com from scratch. Ugh.

Now that I've hopefully been able to put a halt to work projects, I should be able to do more work on this project.

Drupal Support is Awesome!

I've only been working on vfranklyn.com for a few days and I've been going by the book, but already I've run into two problems:

1. DHTML Menu - contrib module settings don't display the way the book said it would.


2. Clean URLs - going to Administer after enabling this gave a 403 Forbidden error.

But hey, no worries! I went to Drupal.org, searched for both problems and found solutions that worked!

So far I'm very happy with Drupal and its community.

vfranklyn.com

I just purchased the domain name vfranklyn.com and set up a remotely hosted website to work with Drupal:

vfranklyn.com

It's just in its initial stages...

I'll probably be migrating this blog over there before too long.

DrupalCamp Websites

I told the Website Team I would gather a list of the websites highlighted at DrupalCamp Colorado. Here they are:

DrupalCamp Websites