I’ve redesigned Pura Web Design to be more vibrant and graphical while maintaining the professional touch.

Check it out.

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Here’s some great code to make sure your site does not get duplicate indexes for non-www and www pages.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

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Although I’ve never really been interested in tracking my stats, but more focused on structure, design, and content, I’ve now come to realise what an important asset maintaining good knowledge of your sites statistics actually is.

There’s a whole host of features to Google Analytics which can be used to monitor what your visitors like, what brings them back, and what external forces bring them to your site.

I’ve added referrer tracking code to the Steve Irwin Memorial before, but it got to be a pain in the rear and wasn’t all that sophisticated. Blame my quick-job coding you may but that excludes the point! :p With Analytics you can track exactly what people are typing into the Search Engines (whether it be Yahoo, MSN, Google, Lycos, it recognises them) and through this you’ll be able to build upon what drives your traffic. You can also track who is linking to your site and how many referrals they’ve made.

There are endless features I could rant on about, but I advise you; if you are not already using Google Analytics, go give it a try and you’ll be pleasently surprised!

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I believe there are different types of Web Developers. There’s a certain difference between Web Designer and Programmers, however what defines people to be these? What is your type? What is your path?

These are the different types:

Artistic Developer
An individual that is gifted or takes interest in the artistic side of the internet and web development.

Logical Developer
An individual that thinks logically and has a very systematic mind. Usually exceptionally good at web programming in languages such as PHP, ASP, Perl, etc, but alot of these type don’t usually have good design skills.

Entrepreneur Developer
Individual that sees the internet and thinks $$$. I’ve found it common for these sort to make a cruddy website and expect the money to flow in, but alas sucumb to little or no success.  However, if the time is invested to know the other areas of web development such as web trends, programming, and design, then you are on the correct road.

‘Reach-the-mases’ Developer
The type of developer that likes alot of visitors using their site and use it as inspiration for their motivation. Usually these type of developer slant towards community/forum based websites, and in almost all other cases have some sort of section on their site where users can input.

The All-Round Developer
This is the developer that takes interest in all areas of web development to make a good website. Established developers of this type are one-person web making machines who can design and program a site by themselves.

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