For the Love of My Country

Feedjit allows you, and viewers of your website to view in real-time, who is visiting your website, and exactly how they found it (i.e. which link they followed).

Feedjit is awesome, I use it to learn what search terms people are using to find my sites, or where they have come from on the web and found the link to my site. You can tell it to ignore your IP address etc, it is free and absolutely marvelous.

However it may be annoying for you to have the large (minimum 160px X aprox 700px) widget on your blog/website, so how on earth do you hide it?

1. Ok, first grab your code: http://feedjit.com/joinjs/
2. Create the following Div: <div style="display:none;">HERE</div> put it just above the </body> tag - it doesn't really matter, as it will be hidden from view anyway.
3. Now just paste the Feedjit code on top of where it says HERE. (Feedjit code is generic - it's not generated specifically for your site, and you don't have to modify it at all)
   

Now, to link to the Feedjit Live page, just create the following link anywhere you like on your website:

<a href="http://live.feedjit.com/live/YOURWEBSITE.COM">LINK TEXT/PICTURE</a>

Since Feedjit is so great, and free, I recommend using their logo to give them credit.

Labels: feed, feedjit, stats

Right, so you have a dodgy looking .wdb file that you want to access, but you don't have Micro$oft Works. .wdb stands for Works Database, and can only be opened with Microsoft Works. But who has that software these days?

Check out this program called MS Works Wks and WDB Files Budget Converter 2.2. It will convert a .wdb file into .xls fairly quickly - despite the claims by the producer that it will run real slow because it's only for non-commercial use. It's a 500kb download.

It is annoying however, as they seem to corrupt some of the cells intentionally, to make you frustrated enough to buy the full version. I'm not sure though, it may only "corrupt" empty cells in the excel spreadsheet that it corrects by entering in the following strings,

• (((0-0)))
• Works to Excel converter. Contact RL Software at: info@rl-software.com or visit our website: www.rl-software.com This text and the '(((0-0)))' cells appear only in the trial version!

If you're desparate but don't care too much about the content then this free program will work fine. Otherwise, find a copy of MS Works or alternatively buy the full version for between 10 - 50 Euros depending on the version you go for. Ouch.

Labels: micro$oft