Re: [WSG] Site test Google analytics
On Jul 26, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Jason Robb wrote: Hello everyone, I launched a site today. http://www.barbarawellsstudio.com - I'm looking for some criticism, any suggestions are appreciated. On a side note, I posted a thread back in late May on Photo Gallery markup. My solution is located here: http:// www.barbarawellsstudio.com/collections/ Also, when including Google Analytics, they ask to insert the script into the body, just before the end of the /body. Hi Jason, in Firefox, there is a one pixel gap between the tab and the color bar. I only took a look from Mac, but pretty sure the same thing is showing in PC too as I had encountered the very same problem with a site that also have color coded tabs. The color bar is quite thick therefor you can use line-height or padding bottom to compensate easily. The collections page loads a bit slow for me though - I am on cable broadband. I was once quite fancy with this lightbox gallery, but very soon I got so sick of it I can't even bear to look at it :) Think it goes better with blog. tee *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Site test Google analytics
HI Jason You can stick it in the head of the document although that will load it prior to the rest of the document being loaded which may cause the page to display a bit later than usual. The way around that issue is to use an event listener on load, it could even be delayed by a few seconds using a settimeout but not too much that the visitor will leave before it fires. Ggl only suggest sticking it at the end of the body to avoid interference with page load issues, it's sort of a poor mans load handler. I'm pretty sure having script in the head is ok for all html and xhtml doctypes (strict transitional etc) so you can have your standards cake and eat it too. Cheers James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Robb Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 4:25 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Site test Google analytics Hello everyone, I launched a site today. http://www.barbarawellsstudio.com - I'm looking for some criticism, any suggestions are appreciated. On a side note, I posted a thread back in late May on Photo Gallery markup. My solution is located here: http://www.barbarawellsstudio.com/collections/ Also, when including Google Analytics, they ask to insert the script into the body, just before the end of the /body. My question is this: If I insert the script anywhere but the head, does this break any rules or standards? Shouldn't all scripts be located in the head ONLY? Perhaps I am way off on this. Much thanks in advance, Jason Robb www.eleventy72.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] Site test Google analytics
I like the photo gallery. Did you get the code from another source, or did you write it? If from another source, do you mine sharing? I wasn't a member back in May. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Robb Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 4:25 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Site test Google analytics Hello everyone, I launched a site today. http://www.barbarawellsstudio.com - I'm looking for some criticism, any suggestions are appreciated. On a side note, I posted a thread back in late May on Photo Gallery markup. My solution is located here: http://www.barbarawellsstudio.com/collections/ Also, when including Google Analytics, they ask to insert the script into the body, just before the end of the /body. My question is this: If I insert the script anywhere but the head, does this break any rules or standards? Shouldn't all scripts be located in the head ONLY? Perhaps I am way off on this. Much thanks in advance, Jason Robb www.eleventy72.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Site test Google analytics
Jason Robb wrote: My question is this: If I insert the script anywhere but the head, does this break any rules or standards? Shouldn't all scripts be located in the head ONLY? Perhaps I am way off on this. HTML 4.01 states, The SCRIPT element places a script within a document. This element may appear any number of times in the HEAD or BODY of an HTML document. So it doesn't make any difference, and as Google Analytics doesn't do document.write() or anything like that then you can just ignore Google's advice. (for those with server-side languages I suggest seeing whether Google Analytics is slow because you can download it and cache it yourself. I found that it added 3 seconds to my page load times so I ended up writing a temporary file and refresh it when that file's modified time was too old. See http://urltea.com/12nb ) .Matthew Cruickshank http://docvert.org Convert Microsoft Word to HTML, RSS, or any XML format *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
