I just ran into the issue of not being able to access the Google Analytics data to which a client provided to me. I have numerous other Analytics accounts showing in my Google Account, but for some reason this one would not show up.
The solution actually ended up being frustratingly easy. Here it is:
- Even if your Gmail account email address is all lowercase (your.email@gmail.com), your analytics account may be set up as both upper & lowercase (Your.Email@gmail.com).
- If your Google Analytics account is a mix of both upper and lowercase, and you try to receive access to someone’s account, it will not work, it must match exactly.
- The way to check this is to sign into your Google Analytics profile – www.google.com/analytics
- Click on Settings in the upper right-hand corner of the page.
- On the next page, you will see the email address as Google Analytics sees it.
- This is the email address to provide someone who is attempting to give you access to view their website analytics.
If you have any trouble, let me know in the comment box below.
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on June 11th, 2010•
Company:
VHS Backup
Website Link:
http://www.vhsbackup.com/
Date Launched:
June 2010
Design / Development Notes:
WordPress, HTML, CSS, PHP
Website Notes:
This is a very simple one page website I put together to build a VHS to DVD portion of my business. My goal is to get clients who need to digitize their content to protect their collection and save it for future generations.
Some friends of mine just released an iPhone app that allows you to access your website files and even edit them. The new application is called QuickFTP. You can look it up in the iPhone App Store or click on this link to access it directly:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quickftp/id364306378?mt=8
I had held off on getting an iPad because I really wouldn’t be able to do a lot of my work on the device. But with this iPhone app, I can now access all of my sites and make changes to the files. I can now justify an iPad purchase. Thanks guys!
If you are a website designer, you have likely come to the realization that Internet Explorer 6 is of the devil. Most browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) read and present code a specific way. You create your website and it looks grand in those browsers. Then, you look in Internet Explorer 6 and it looks like someone shook your page and left you with the results. Thanks Microsoft.
It is nice to think about the day when no one will use IE6 anymore, but when I look at website analytics, an astonishing number of people still use IE6. I think they purchased a PC 5 years ago and never upgraded their browser edition, even though IE 8 & 9 are available.
This problem in IE6 is particularly apparent when using DIV tags to design your website.
Below are a few tricks for making sure your page looks the same in IE6:
- First of all, if you have spaced out your DIVs across the page, but IE6 pushes them down, an easy fix is to float the div to the left (float: left;) and to set the display to inline (display:inline;).
- Secondly, IE6 reads code starting with an underscore, so say you have the following margin written in your CSS file (margin: 0px 10px 3px 15px). If IE6 is showing the Left margin incorrectly, you could add a second line to the CSS for that particular DIV tag that goes like this (_margin: 0px 10px 3px 0px).
Some of this is honestly trial and error until you discover the way to make your website look the same in IE6 as Firefox. As you experiment more and more, you will begin to see how IE6 distorts your page and will know ways to combat this for your future sites.
Here is a good site to learn how IE6 reads Floats, Margins, & Padding – http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/floatIndent.html
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