Category Archives: Announcements

Added Google Analytics for stat tracking

May 1, 2008 – 8:11 am

Today I setup Media Grease to use the free Google Analytics service. Google’s system gives webmasters detailed statistics about how their website is used. You’ll know how people got to your site, how long they stayed, what pages they visited, where they live (roughly), and so on.
Stat tracking of this sort has been around for [...]

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‘Blank’ theme installed

April 27, 2008 – 9:18 pm

When working on the design of a CMS powered website—like this one—you generally have four options:

Modify the default installed theme/template/skin to your liking
Find a theme that’s close to the vision you have for your website, and modify that one to your liking
Create a theme from scratch
Find a “blank” theme with minimal styling to use as [...]

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FeedBurner feed setup

April 27, 2008 – 7:37 pm

I just setup a FeedBurner feed for Media Grease which you can access at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/mediagrease
Using FeedBurner helps in a couple ways. When people and bots check your feed, they are hitting FeedBurner’s servers and not yours. FeedBurner has a number of feed customization options that aren’t built into WordPress, like the ability to have one [...]

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Just upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1

April 27, 2008 – 6:15 pm

I’ve just upgraded Media Grease to WordPress 2.5.1 from 2.5. I’m a little surprised they haven’t made upgrading easier. If you need to upgrade your blog, the upgrade instructions are here.

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Hello world!

April 27, 2008 – 11:18 am

I’m web and print designer Chris Johnson and welcome to my brand new professional design blog. This site will be dedicated to the things I know and learn about designing for web and print.
Media Grease is built on the WordPress content management system and is hosted by WebFaction. Both are products that I would have [...]

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