FeedBurner, YUI, Lijit

Frequent visitors will note that this blog is now using a raw YUI template for WordPress. I’ll play with colours and styles, at some point - or more likely ask one of our graphics guys to sweeten it up some. We’ve also added FeedBurner Flares, to add email, Delicious, Digg and Technorati references. Search is now using Lijit’s wijit.

We changed the title of the blog, which leads to an interesting side effect on FeedBurner. Site analytics for FeedBurner uses the blog name to collect stats and show Flares. On changing the name of the blog, the data went to zero. This problem doesn’t seem to be in the Feedburner FAQ. It’s probably not that common an operation. If you use FeedBurner, and you change the name of your blog, remember to also go back to your site templates and adjust the JavaScript web beacon to reflect the new name. Otherwise you’ll wonder why the name change apparently makes your blog suddenly unpopular.

Neither Google Analytics nor FeedBurner, of course, show RSS feeds when the only file grabbed is the raw data straight from the RSS feed, unless you use FeedBurners “MyBrand” service. It’s been interesting to compare the web server log files, Akismet detected spam, Google Analytics and FeedBurner data to see what patterns there are. I’ll probably write up this investigation in some depth, later.

Lijit’s search tool (top of the sidebar, at present), seems pretty nifty. Interesting to see what searches brought people here, and what they search for.