Web Oversight

Our statistics tell us nothing. At least that's my general feeling about the current usage analaysis of our web site. I've decided to make one of our discussion points about the information we're trying to find beyond the total traffic.

Just realized my method of finding out the number of hits for the category pages has been woefully inadequate. I've modified so that I'm only getting actual page hits and not also lines with referrer information. See sample below.

find /C /I "/parents.htm - 200" ex0312??.log

I think I'll change the total traffic chart to 16 months so that we can get a better feel for year-over-year performance. Current chart really only shows the site performance for the past year.

Instructional Components Prototype

Spent a good amount of time this week working to get the IC demo working on both Mac and windows. There were various problems with both the treeview and the slidemenu scripts. I had to make heavy modifications to the demo to get things working smoothly.

• Update the scripts to the most recent versions
• Modified the treeview script to add a highlighted menu item (perhaps this is a built-in feature … I didn't really have time to investigate)
• Modified the treeview script to allow for the use of javascript for the link
• Modified the slidemenu script to add a ID and CLASS to the menu item container TD
• Modified the slidemenu script so that menu item mouseovers call a function that modifies the container class instead of the BGCOLOR attribute.
• Modified the slidement script by adding three functions, two to handle the above calls and one to handle the switching of highlighted menu item based on the selected section (this also modifies the container class)