Having a quick insightful dashboard is a thing of wonder.  In one screen you can see if everything is gooding good or bad.  Have visits increased?  What about Search Traffic? Time on site?  Page Load times?  How many mobile visitors?

We created a Google Analytics dashboard that covers all of these topics.  This post reviews each of the 12 widgets, how you can create them, and a link so you can try out the complete dashboard on your site in one click.

There is one feature I have been wanting for a long time, Dashboard Sharing.  I manage quite a few websites and really disliked the idea of having to create the same 4 dashboards for 30 different sites.  

4 Dashboard X 30 Sites X 12 Widgets / Site = 1440 Widgets to create.

Not a fun way to spend a day.

Well now this is no longer a concern.  Google has implemented Dashboard Sharing.

We have all seen those cool stars and review info in the Google listings.  These rich snippets have been available for a while and we are now seeing them more and more.  I have added them to several of my sites and I created this guide so I would remember how I did it as well as for helping others.

A big challenge in web design/usability is understanding that visitors have different screen sizes and most screens are smaller than you would think. This can be particularly difficult convincing clients, website owners, and graphic designers with large monitors the rest of the world does not have 24 inch widescreen monitors.

In May of 2009, Google announced the inclusion of Rich Shippets in their result pages.  You may have seen stars displaying in the Google search results, these stars are due to the addition of microformatting code to the page.

Since learning about this cool new feature I (along with several others in the jReview forums) have been adding this code to our review sites.

If you have not tried out Google Webmater tools. You should. They are that helpful.

Google has created these tools to help you see how google sees your site.  You could uncovers some big problems with simple fixes.

These tools allow you to see what search results you pages are appearing on, what pages are indexed, submit sitemaps, and many more.

The domain name has more to do with the success of a site than you would initially think. 

When you are searching for information, do you ever look at the domain name?  I do, I am checking it for relevancy.   If the site is neededinfo.com.  This name has much more creditability than my-needed-info.biz or some variation. 

A customer of Intown Web Design developed an offline postcard campaign.   The postcard campaign centered around their revolutionary new product.  The postcard instructed them to visit a website about the new product. However, this website was not complete.  To provide the best customer experience we created a 301 redirect to the existing product page on the company's main website.