Content Management System Tips!

After launching a site, do you know how your audience reacts to it?

You can poll, survey, and conduct focus groups. While you’ll get interesting results, be careful: market research books will counsel you to carefully craft the questions you ask. More than likely you’’’ get feedback from a portion of your audience. Which portion? You can infer some answers to that from your site access logs that capture everyone. You can collect their use of the site, which could be more telling than their impression.

Users needs change over time. By logging the activities on your site as a side-effect of publishing, you’ll gather feedback to guide your contributors. Use Feedback to shorten the paths to most used content, and use popular paths to advertise less seen content. Adjust site navigation to reduce searching. Adjust applications like searches to return more targeted results. Decide on new areas to populate based on user feedback. You can’t do this unless you record activity on your site.

Web Server State (W3C web logs)

Web server state consists of the variables that your web server uses to process requests. Micorsoft Internet Information Services, Apache, and many other web servers output W3C- compliant log files. This low-level information tells you details such as who made the request, what request they made, the browser they used, and how long the web server took to fulfill the request. You can read a data dictionary of the W3C log file by browsing the W3C site. By assessing related log entries, web log reporting tolls attempt to guess at the click path your audience traverses through the site.

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thanx for sharing, 501

 

Great you found it useful! I shall be writing more CMS related tutorials soon.

 

dont you have a site where you could host your tutorials?

 

Hehe infact i do, it would be great if you could join my community and check out the tutorials,web-tools and much more here:
Web-Development

Enjoy please feel free if you have any questions i am working on the CMS right now.

 

i've just registered. not sure if i have to activate my account, since nothing email has arrived with activation code. Anyway, the system with points seems to be cool feature
I wish you all the best with your website, coz it shows much promises

 

Thank you, you dont need an activation code you can login right away. Well thank you, alot of people like the point system just having a hard time promoting properly. Not only do you get free cash but also advertising.

Thank you once again, i am just trying to market the site properly as of this moment and working on releasing the CMS to best fit everyones needs.

Anyways thank you for joining!

 

listen... what type of CMS its going to be? ... at least what i see in my opinion its a community cms, right sorry if i'm wrong.

good thing i foun is that there are lots of posts in the forums on your website. Cool!!!

btw, i have submitted couple of websites... where i'm supposed to find it when admin approve it?... probably one of it is not in an appropriate category... is it going to be removed if its not relevant to any category? just curious

 

Well yes, the CMS is meant for Community Portal sites that include the forums and everything else you see on Kenetix.net

Yes, i have approved your links it would be great if you could link back to us as well. Anyways i would be more then happy to be of some help to you in some form or manner. You can submit your links to our affiliates page if you have a button.

 

hey )) sorry for the delay, i just was away on vacation ))

thank you for adding my links. Look, we have a directory at xooArticles.com/dir/ ... (i'm sorry but the website can be temporary unavailable because we are moving to another webserver but it's going to be alive very shortly) it supposed to be niche directory and i add there links to website that are related to somewhat publishing... there are some categories that i could add your link to if you don't mind... )) i'm sorry i have no more any directory to offer but i will take a look around and try to do something more.

 

Thanks for the tutorial. I am new to this online community and webmaster thing and can always use a good advice.

 

Glad to have helped you, and welcome to DigitalPoint!