If you are having trouble generating thumbnails with NextGEN Gallery this could be down to your web hosts default memory usage allocation for PHP applications.
You can increase the memory usage allocation for an individual PHP applications, such as NextGEN gallery which require more memory usage than other applications. You can do this by using @ini_set:
@ini_set('memory_limit', 'x'); where x is the memory.
In the case of NextGEN Gallery:
You should now see that the thumbnails have been generated. 128M is usually enough in most cases from our experience but if you find that thumbnails are still not being created try increasing the memory limit to @ini_set(‘memory_limit’, ’256M’);
Remember if you update NextGEN Galley automatically from within WordPress you will have to repeat this process.
Apples homepage today (Thursday 6th October 2011) simply had an image of Steve Jobs with a link through to clean uncluttered page – the way he seemed to like the apple website with a tribute to Steve Jobs himself – www.apple.com/stevejobs
The Bounce Rate has always concerned webmasters but what exactly is the Bounce Rate? According to Google the Bounce Rate is:
Many people may not be aware that WordPress will output an RSS feed of all posts with a particular tag. This is great if you want to feed a particular page with posts just tagged as ‘WordPress’ for example.
If you have changed your permalink structure using for example using /%category%/%postname%/ then the feed URL would be:
http://www.monicowebdesign.co.uk/tag/wordpress/feed
If your using non fancy permalinks (the WordPress default) then the URL would be:
http://www.monicowebdesign.co.uk/?tag=wordpress&feed=rss2
If you are currently using Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising then it is worth taking a bit of time out to reflect on your campaign. Here are ten my top tips to get the best out of your PPC campaign.
My good friend @RhianHowells sent me this excellent piece written by Douglas Adams back in 1999 – How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet what really caught my attention is his own views on how we all think about technology.
I have always said that a TV is a technology to our grandparents but not to us but Douglas Adams puts it across much more eloquently than I could ever manage! So here is his view:
Apply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are.
I have been asked on a number of occasions what the difference is between bounce rate & exit rate, especially now that Google Analytics is so widespread. Indeed many people I have spoken to believe both exit rate and Bounce Rate mean exits from your page / site. Well that is true to a certain extent the difference being that the exit rate differers slightly in that the exiting visitor may have visited other pages on your site before leaving.
Bounce Rate is the percentage of visitors that visit a page on your website and don’t visit any other pages. For example someone may come in to a page via a search engine and then go to another site without visiting any of your other pages 
The Exit Rate on the other hand is the percentage of people who have left the page but would have previously visited other pages. The figure is worked out by the percentage of visitors that leave your website from a page based on the number of visits to that page.
If your Bounce Rate is high and the average time spent on the page is very low then perhaps it is time to worry. Users are more than likely scanning the page and haven’t found what they are looking for.
Uninstalling FireFox on the Mac is not as easy as it is on Windows. As well as removing the Firefox.app file from applications you need to remove files located in your Users directory as well.Once you have done this then all settings will be removed inducing bookmarks, history and plugins.
Applications/Firefox.app
/Users/User/Library/Application Support/Firefox/
/Users/User/Library/Caches/Firefox
/Users/User/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist
User is any users that have used Firefox for example…
/Users/admin/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist
/Users/bill/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist
We have some great sites this week from plugins that improve the WordPress admin area to a nostalgic look at very early versions of Internet Explorer, well I say nostalgic I can remember being very frustrated during most of the late 90′s and early Norties with IE!
Google Analytics is a fantastic tool its free and very feature rich however Google Analytics also uses many terms some of which are not as straight forward as you may think. So here is a list of some of the more popular terms and they’re meaning you will come across when using Google Analytics.
The first stat you will see from the Analytics dashboard is Visits but I am not going to explain Visits first I am going to start with PageViews.
A pageview is recorded every time a page on your site is viewed. So if a visitor clicks the back button, refreshes the page and every time a page is opened in a browser then a pageview is created. If we wish to be more technical about it every time the _trackPageview method is executed then a pageview is created.
As I mentioned earlier Google Analytics presents visits as the first stat on the dashboard. One visit is made up from a number of pageviewes (see above) that a single visitor makes. A visit ends when the user closes the browser or is idle for a period of time (the default is 30 minutes).
With this in mind don’t be tempted to report that your site has x visitors whilst reporting the Pageview figure, always use Visits!
Not to be confused with Visits. Whenever a the Analytics tracking code is executed it looks for a cookie with a unique ID on the computer, if a cookie cannot be found then a new ID is set and another visitor added. Users can delete cookies or use a different browser to access your site on the same computer so don’t overly rely on these figures.
One to look out for – a bounce is a visit with just one pageview so essentially users who come to the site and then leave. For example someone may come in to this page via a search engine and then go to another site without visiting any of my other pages. Disaster!
You shouldn’t confuse Exit Rate and the Bounce Rate. The Exit Rate is the percentage of people who have left the page but would have previously visited other pages. For a full explanation please visit our Difference between bounce rate & exit rate blog post.
Google Analytics works this out by subtracting the time that a visitor hits a page to the time they hit the next page. For example if a visitor hits a page at 10:45 and then hits the next page at 10:50 then they spent five minutes on the page. However there is a flaw! The time on the last page will always be 0 as the tracking code cannot work when a user closes a page
Analytics works this out by calculating the difference between the time they viewed the first and last pages in a visit.
If a visitor does not have any analytics cookies on there machine when hitting your site then they will be counted as a new visitor. Unfortunately we cannot rely on this as users can delete Cookies and use different browsers on a machine (see Visitors).
A visitor that has a cookie on their machine from the domain however as above this cannot be relied upon as users can delete cookies.
Pageviews divided by visitors as simple as that!
This is the traffic that comes direct from your site from people typing the address directly into their browsers or traffic that has come to the site via a bookmark.
Now again direct traffic figures may include traffic that the analytics code couldn’t determine the source.
Shows the visitors that have reached your site from another, most likely via a link from another site or email. Two points to consider here though…
Traffic that has reached your site from search queries. It is worth noting that both organic searches and searches from paid campaigns (Google Ad-Words for example) will appear here.