Web Development Blog Shannenpio

Earlier when I decided to redesign my blog I asked myself this question: what screen size should I design for? I answered myself by looking at the visitor data collected by Google Analytics. Even though I decided to go for a responsive design, a screen resolution report provided my with some interesting insights. For example I inferred that more than 75% of my visitors would be able to see the newly introduced 970x90px large leaderboard AdSense ads. To create a "Screen Resolutions Report" in Google Analytics, go to the Customization tab, click the New Custom Report button and follow the instructions below: Enter a suitable title for your report. Change the name of the first tab to Overall . Change the report type to Explorer . In the Metric Groups section, click the add metric button and select Visitors > Visits . You can add as many metrics as you like. In the Dimension Drilldowns section, click the add dimension button and select Visitors > Screen Resolut...

Back in February I decided to change the address of my blog from 911-need-code-help.blogspot.com to salman-w.blogspot.com . Changing the blog address is straightforward; however, I wanted the following to happen after the change: Backlinks to the old blog should continue to work Visitors attempting to access the old blog should be redirected to the new blog automatically Search engine ranking for the old blog should be transferred to the new blog In short, I needed to redirect old URLs to new ones. Given that Blogger does not have an option to redirect URLs to another blog and mod-rewrite/server-side scripting is not available either; my only option was to use zero second meta refresh tag which is (claimed to be) treated as a 301/permanent redirect by Google. So, here is what I did: NOTE THAT THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT MOVING FROM ONE BLOGSPOT.COM ADDRESS TO ANOTHER . If you are moving from Blogspot hosting to custom domain, you (probably) don't have to do anything speci...