Jake Rutter

Book Review: Magento 1.3 PHP Developers Guide

Jake Rutter — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:49:26 +0000

Last week I was contacted by Packt Publishing with the opportunity to read and then review one of their latest books, titled Magento 1.3 PHP Developers Guide. I have accepted the opportunity, as I have a huge love for books [...]

How Google Analytics uses cookies to track your visitors

Jake Rutter — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:04:46 +0000

If you have ever used Google Analytics, you will notice that it tracks how users behave on your site – from which pages they click, which products they purchase, which terms they search, to which browsers they use. It is [...]

Google Analytics: How to setup Site Search

Jake Rutter — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:31:26 +0000

A great feature within Google Analytics which is really easy to setup, is Site Search. It’s hidden within the content tab and once setup, you can find out how people are using your search on your site, and how it [...]

devshed.com needs a redesign…

Jake Rutter — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:17:22 +0000

Today I read an article on Mashable called 11 Outstanding Online Resources for Web Developers. #4 on the list being devshed.com, which I have to agree is a pretty useful website resource. But one thing that strikes me as odd [...]

Measuring Site Performance with Google Analytics

Jake Rutter — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:32:17 +0000

I have recently become more interested in Google Analytics over the past few years. I think its a combination of the improvements/availability of better features within Google Analytics coupled with my curiosity of trying to figure out how to drive [...]

Google Website Optimizer and other Google Tools

Jake Rutter — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:46:36 +0000

Recently at work I finally had the opportunity to try out Google Website Optimizer, which is an A/B and Multivariate testing tool. We wanted to test different creatives on a landing page to see which performed better. Before trying out [...]

Another Successful Client Launch: HMSDesign.com

Jake Rutter — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:00:16 +0000

After 2 months of hard-work, we just launched the new and much improved HMSDesign.com. The client being a design/packaging agency provided the design and I built a fully functional CMS backend and front-end with jQuery to allow the client to [...]

PHP Image Rotator Script via A List Apart

Jake Rutter — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:03:00 +0000

I just wanted to post a quick note about a great php image rotator script that I just found on A List Apart. It was one of the most painless scripts I have ever setup. I needed a little script [...]

Learning as I go, my first php/mysql custom cms project

Jake Rutter — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:15:52 +0000

Over the past two months, I have been working pretty hard on a freelance project for a package design agency hmsdesign.com. I have just finished up, but the site is not yet live. The client came to me looking for [...]

iPhone .htaccess detection script and other .htaccess tools

Jake Rutter — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:35:22 +0000

For anyone looking for a nice and easy way to create an iPhone redirection script, check out this tutorial. I found this site because I was looking for a nice .htpasswd generator to setup a username/password list for a site [...]