After getting rid of some initial server setup issues, I was able to get Shaun Inman’s amazing stats monitoring web application, Mint. It lets me keep a keen eye on my visitors, what time they visited, what pages were browsed, what browser resolution they are running, what web browser they use, as well as inform me of other vital information.
Mint’s tag line is that I will be able to find out what my visitors browse most often, so that I can expand that content as well as hone in to what they want. Mint was released but a few days ago. I purchased a site license for this domain but was unable to install it since I was then serving this website locally on my Mac Mini.
The feature of Mint that caught my eye first was the Pepper API, which allows developers to create their own plugins and dramatically improves the potential of Mint. For example, just recently a download counter was released for Pepper.
PaulStamatiou.com runs on the Thesis Theme for WordPress
Thesis is the search engine optimized WordPress theme of choice for serious online publishers. If you’re a blogger who doesn’t understand a lot of PHP, Thesis will give a ton of functionality without having to alter any code. For the advanced, Thesis has incredible customization possibilities via Thesis hooks.
With so many design options, you can use the template over and over and never have it look like the same site. The theme is robust and flexible enough not only to accommodate a site like PaulStamatiou.com, but also to enable the site to run far more efficiently than it ever has before.
I used the Scribe WordPress plugin and service to optimize this blog post for SEO.
