This is just a brief wrap up Gingerling Design, including my ethos and motivation for making websites trading under that name. That project is now closed and I don’t do this work anymore following my dads death, however, I learned a lot so good to jot it down! Charity sector website burnout In my long…Continue reading What I learned making websites for charities
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Using Feefo with Prestashop/Thirybees
I set up feefo with my prestashop store but due to unrelated personal circumstances I never did much work with the website after this. Here are my notes from the time, tidied up a bit. Appologies the post lacks narrative, it’s got details of how I did each task without much info on what the…Continue reading Using Feefo with Prestashop/Thirybees
Postcode based targeted email marketing for events using Mautic
Mautic, Open Source marketing software, can be used to send targeted emails about events to people on your mailing list who live within a radius of that event. The best thing about this process is the lists will always be up to date when you need them: next time an event is in the same area you have a list ready and waiting. Here’s how it’s done.
Troubleshooting changes in Analytics: Bounce rate down: Page views up caused by second Matomo / Google tracking code
Hi all, just a quick dip into website analytics today! Over the years I have learned that watching your analytics like they are drying paint after you make big changes to the site is a great way to…. find errors and be disappointed! (Not kidding unfortunatly) After most major website revamps I have been involved…Continue reading Troubleshooting changes in Analytics: Bounce rate down: Page views up caused by second Matomo / Google tracking code
GDPR: you are allowed to maintain a blacklist, suppression list or stoplist. You are also allowed to freak out and panic.
In May the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force (and no, brexit won’t get us out of it – still no benefit to brexit. Sorry.) In my view this is shaping up be a complicated piece of law for small businesses to follow, both intellectually and technically. Worryingly, I’ve not heard much…Continue reading GDPR: you are allowed to maintain a blacklist, suppression list or stoplist. You are also allowed to freak out and panic.
copy-pasting data from website table to libreoffice, formatting it as a csv in geddit
Yet another task getting data out of a fairly nasty/incoherent web-based table and moving it into LibreOffice for sorting/project planning. Presumably this is all “easier” with scripting but I don’t have the time/patience/inclination to learn, so here is my hacky method! It worked for 95% of my data, so I had 5 of 100 lines…Continue reading copy-pasting data from website table to libreoffice, formatting it as a csv in geddit
Why Piwik is now Matomo: on Forking and Damaged Trademarks
Piwik is the Free and Open Source Analytics project, like Google Analytics but a whole lot less creepy. On 9th January 2018 Piwik was renamed Matomo: I did a little digging and can shed some light on why this change has happened and how it highlights a wider issue for Open Source projects in world of Branding and brand loyalty.
Removing button names etc from a list of blogs/files/emails copied from a website (Gedit, Fedora)
Often if I have copied a list of blogs, files or emails from an app or website, where there is no export function, button names such as “Edit” and “Delete” will copy over. Often in a small list of items there will be several repeated junk phrases for each item of text I actually need.…Continue reading Removing button names etc from a list of blogs/files/emails copied from a website (Gedit, Fedora)
Quickly removing date/time stamps from a text file using find and replace (Gedit, Fedora)
I have been writing a lot recently about little obstacles I have come across while helping the Church of England move content from their old sites to their new ones. Making a list of all the content to be moved is often the first job, but many of the older/proprietary platforms don’t have the ability…Continue reading Quickly removing date/time stamps from a text file using find and replace (Gedit, Fedora)
How to randomly select data from a column in libreoffice
This is a up-to-date variation of some docs I found useful, the original was made by johnSUN. My problem Today I was researching for a possible change in the phpList UI: right now the behaviour of the menu item “Send a campaign” depends on if you have draft campaigns or not. If you have no…Continue reading How to randomly select data from a column in libreoffice