WPZOOM » Resources http://www.wpzoom.com Free & Premium WordPress Themes Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:46:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Tools We Use: Woopra http://www.wpzoom.com/resources/tools-we-use-woopra/ http://www.wpzoom.com/resources/tools-we-use-woopra/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:17:44 +0000 Pavel Ciorici http://www.wpzoom.com/?p=1530 ]]> From the first day this tool was recommended by a good friend, we simply fell in love with it for its great functionality. Woopra is a desktop tool that provides real-time live statistics about visitors on your web-site.

Here is the official product description:

Woopra is the world’s most comprehensive, information rich, easy to use, real-time Web tracking and analysis application. We deliver the richest library of visitor statistics in the industry through our innovative desktop application. But Woopra is more than simply statistics.

How is Woopra helping us?

Since this tool offers live statistics for our web-site, we can see in real-time how our visitors browse our web-site, where they came from, what browser and screen size they are using, see how long they stay on WPZOOM before they decide to buy a theme.

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Among the usual data that can also be provided by Google Analytics, this tool allows us to initiate a live chat with any of our visitors, as long as they have javascript enabled in their browser. Pretty cool if you want to really surprise your visitors :)

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The live chat feature is really great, though we haven’t had the chance to use it much. It is a little risky to just pop-up on your visitor’s screen, though I’m sure people will find ways how to integrate this nifty feature into their own web-sites, communities, etc.
We were wondering maybe to use this feature to pick random winners for some of our contests… who knows, who knows :)

]]> http://www.wpzoom.com/resources/tools-we-use-woopra/feed/ 2 5 Typekit Invitations Giveaway http://www.wpzoom.com/resources/5-typekit-invitations-giveaway/ http://www.wpzoom.com/resources/5-typekit-invitations-giveaway/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:17:46 +0000 Pavel Ciorici http://www.wpzoom.com/?p=1496 ]]> As we promised in our previous post, we will write more articles about “behind the scenes” at WPZOOM. So today we will start with a short contest about a great tool we discovered a while ago, called Typekit, which allows you to embed selective fonts on your website using javascript and @font-face. But let’s see the full definition of this tool:

Typekit allows you to embed select fonts using javascript and @font-face. It even works in IE6+! They have a great selection of fonts to choose from and is very simple to implement. After selecting a font you would like to use, all you need to do is include the relevant code to load in the javascript and you will be able to use the font just as if you were using @font-face regularly.

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A great video-tutorial on using this tool can be viewed on Nettuts.
And since registration on this service currently takes too long, we decided to giveaway 5 invitations that we have received when our account was activated.

How to enter the competition:

    1. Follow @WPZOOM on Twitter.
    2. Post an update on Twitter with the following message: “Win a Typekit invitation for free on @WPZOOM http://retwt.me/1lAp8 #wpzoomcontest”
    3. Post a comment on this article which must include a link to your status update on Twitter.
    4. Lucky winners will be chosen randomly, and will be announced in this article on Tuesday, 28th October.

Winners are:

#3 – EvilMammoth
#6 – Daniela Blanco
#8 – Evan Bowers
#12 – digibomb
#13 – Adone

Congratulations!

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