Launching a new language learning site

We have just started to beta our new site. Learn about learning Spanish or start learning French as well as Italian, German and English. We will be adding more languages to the site soon.

The site is for people to share what learning a new language was like and us to share ways of learning and where is good to do it. So visit www.cactuslanguagetraining.com/en/ today.

Expressionengine related articles code

Just found out a way of doing related entries in a slightly nicer way than just (In same category, latest first).
Use track_views and get counts for weblog entries not just templates. you can then sort buy the view count, giving you the most read stories.

It is not ture related articles but at least it is most popular articles in a category, and it will keep updating, but not jump as much as sort by date.

You can remove the {view_count_one}, just for effect.

Single Entry page: (you will need to look at the source)

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{weblog_name}" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="1" track_views="one"}
{title}
--{view_count_one}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

{!-- Followed by --}
{exp:weblog:entries related_categories_mode="on" limit="3" orderby="view_count_one"}
{if count == "1"}

Related Articles

{/if}

• 
  {title} {view_count_one}
  

{if count == total_results}

{/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

Yahoo! Web Analytics gets out and closer to the whole web

Dennis blogged about Yahoo! Web Analytics getting out to Yahoo advertisers and Store owners today. I think there are alot of people like me watching and waiting for IndexTools release as Yahoo! Web Analytics for the last five months.

I really want to move from Google Analytics to Yahoo Analytics as IndexTools seems such a great product from the demonstation I saw Dennis and SnowValley do a great talk in London a couple of months ago. Dennis is really good so hope this runs and runs.

Bill and Windows still have it - no marketing and too much money - http://ping.fm/6Ncgu

Sharing comments accross the net

I heard about comment sharing or pooling across blogs from Leo Laport a month or two ago but now we are getting closer with our new product trying out http://www.intensedebate.com/ and http://www.cocomment.com/ seemed a good idea. Also using Gravitar sites well with me.

I am trying intensedebate on this blog even if it will not get all the comments it could. They have a WordPress version coming so will have to wait for that. I like the idea of not having to register lots of places to comment and also to comment on idfferent pages on different sites about the same thing.

Currently working on

I am currently doing alot of work with Expression Engine and waiting for version 2.0. We have built one site with it and are working on a new CMS version of CactusLanguageTraining.com to be called Cactus Tailor-made which just need enough resource to finish writing the copy and some forms work. And our exciting new project of sharing our knowledge of language learning and trying to find the right path for people.

Google local pulling more review sources

Noticed that google local is pulling more sources for reviews:

Touchsouthampton.com
Tripadvisor.com
Trustedplaces.com
Igougo.com
Viamichelin.co.uk
Viamichelin.fr
Viamichelin.it
Viamichelin.de