Spun

Here’s a handy tip on how to track broken links or missing pages on your site with Google Analytics. Speaking of, here’s how we use Analytics at Lifehacker to figure out which posts are our top performers.

While I think the result still looks very much like a blog and not as much as a magazine as I’d like (why must CMSes influence their output so much?!), this tutorial on How to use WordPress to run a magazine may come in handy some day.

To do: Pore through this great-looking Javascript Boot Camp tutorial.

My poor, old and few Firefox extensions are falling into disrepair. I’ll have to revisit these tutorials to get myself and them back up to speed.

After reviewing about 17 dozen dynamic RSS reader homepages on Lifehacker (like Google’s Personalized Homepage and Netvibes and Protopage) - which are all basically the same - it warms my heart to see a tutorial on how to build your own.

Hopefully this means these “desktop” homepages have jumped the shark and everyone move their “WebOS” dev efforts onto something a bit more innovative (and useful!).

I was really sad to miss Simon Willison’s Javascript tutorial at ETech this week, but happily he’s posted all his slides and detailed notes. Thanks, Simon! Definitely gonna brush up on the Javascript with this.

A few Ajax links I’ve been hoarding:

• Ajax Tutorial: Ajax What Is It Good For?
• 24 ways: Edit-in-Place with Ajax
• Mastering Ajax, Part 1: Introduction to Ajax
• Mastering Ajax, Part 2: Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and Ajax
• Mastering Ajax, Part 3: Advanced requests and responses in Ajax

Updated with one more link.