About the web site

Hi Gareth, somewhere on the forum you posted, I think a how to add pictures and slide shows to ones folder, I could not find the post, I have not figured out how to add a slide show to my folder it seems to only accept one picture at a time. what am I doing wrong

Ok, here's how it's done;

a. Create a folder
b. Click add item and select type "Image"
c. "Browse" to your image and click upload / save
d. Repeat b,c,d as required
e. Click on "actions" and "Make slideshow"

And that's about it ..

Thanks I will give it a try

Previously Gareth Bult wrote:

 This is a graph showing how people find the site, ideally we'd like to increase the numbers so if anyone can lend a hand .. in particular the blue slice is people being referred by other sites, so if anyone uses Facebook, Delicious or any of the other social bookmarking sites, don't forget to drop a link in to ArthurRansome.org !!

Interesting to see the graph if it is available.

The link to TARS was restored on TarBoard from the beginnning of the month.

Ok, the original graph is attached to the first post, however as I'm now able to insert images inline, this is a more up-to-date version.

In terms of overall stats this is 3540 visits by 2291 different visitors with an average of ~ 5 pages per visit. (this average is quite high!)

In total this ads up to 17544 page views, with 58% of visitors being "new" to the site and 42% being returning visitors. Comparing the graph now to the one posted above with my initial comment, there's about a 1% shift, so it's pretty much identical.

Thank you for this Gareth.  A fascinating piechart. I had thought with your use of the word graph that you were referring to something different.

For the benefit of the TARS commmitee rather than me, I don't know whether it possible to break down the site referrals so that can know from where you are attracting business.

Mmm, I'm sort of under the impression that a "pie chart" is a type of Graph ..

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph

Is this what you're after?

Thank you for very much for this Gareth.  This is a fascinating bar chart and gives me some ideas of other sites about which I knew nothing.

Could you confirm, please, that if I logon diectly it will count as a visit or is that excluded? Visit analysis software works differently depending on which brand you use.

In mathematical terms a graph is a line between two axes. Everything else is usually called a chart. As with sll rules there are occasional exceptions.

Mmm, the Oxford English dictionary says;

"• noun a diagram showing the relation between variable quantities" , whereas chart is;

"• noun 1 a sheet of information in the form of a table, graph, or diagram."

So, I would agree the diagram is a pie chart, however it's also a chart, and also a graph. The second diagram could be called a bar chart, but it too also falls within the definition of "graph". Indeed charts in context seem to be defined using "graph" as a root.

When you start a new session on the site, it's counted as a "visit". If you look at a number of pages within a given timeframe, these are included within that visit (or session). When you don't load a new page from the site  for a given timeframe, the "visit" will expire. Subsequently returning to the site will start a new visit. Alternatively if you restart your computer or browser, it will end a given visit.

This is done using Google analytics, I'm not sure anybody uses anything else these days.

Previously Owen Roberts wrote:

Thank you for very much for this Gareth.  This is a fascinating bar chart and gives me some ideas of other sites about which I knew nothing.

Could you confirm, please, that if I logon diectly it will count as a visit or is that excluded? Visit analysis software works differently depending on which brand you use.

In mathematical terms a graph is a line between two axes. Everything else is usually called a chart. As with sll rules there are occasional exceptions.