Take a look at these lovely Easter Bunny and Birdy icons. They are super cute! Use them to spirit up your blog theme. They are free for download. Check them out HERE.

I’ve added two bunnies in my blog. Can you spot them?

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Good news to all Blogspot bloggers!

Gis has released a new blogger template. It’s called Birdie’s Spring Time. SoooOooo gorgeous, it makes me want to change my template too. But unfortunately, it’s not available in WordPress yet.

The layout is simple, but very pleasing to the eyes. I like the white background with flowers. Check out this awesome template HERE.

I hope Gis will create more WordPress themes in future. I will definitely use her theme on Our Little Smarties.

For blogshop owners, you can consider investing in a custom blog design. Look at these fabulous designs from Gis. They are so beautiful, they definitely worth every penny.

I love them to bits!

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Do you monitor your blog statistics? In the past, I don’t really do that because of one simple reason – I blog for fun, not for money. It doesn’t matter how many people visits my blog.

After I migrated to WordPress, I get free tracking tools from my web hosting. From there, I learn about the statistics. I start to track the number of visitors to my blog, analyze the traffic and gauge my blog performance.

Surprisingly, this can be quite interesting!

Let me share with you some of the useful numbers that we can get from these trackers:

Traffic
1. Page views
- This is the number of times a page is loaded in our visitors’ browsers.
- Every time a complete page displays, it is counted as one page view, even when a visitor just refreshes the page.

Visitors
2. Unique visitors
- This is a count of how many different visitors that visit our blog.
- If a visitor visits our blog ten times during a measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor.
- It is determined by the number of unique IP addresses, but it can never be 100% accurate.

3. New visitors
- This is the number of brand new visitors, arriving at our blog for the first time.

Activity
4. Days of the week
- We can get information like which day has the most or the least traffic etc.
- If we wish to publish any critical information, we should publish it on the day with the most traffic.

Navigation
5. Navigation paths
- This is the sequence of pages that a visitor viewed from the moment he enters our blog to the moment he leave.

I hope all these terms don’t confuse you. There are more, but I don’t want to list them all here, otherwise you’ll fall asleep.

Sometimes, these individual numbers may be meaningless. But when you blend them together, you will get a clear picture of what’s happening behind the scenes of your blog.

It’s pretty amazing!

I found an awesome plug-in from Dagon Design few days ago. This plug-in creates a sitemap for WordPress blogs and it is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel.

Some of its impressive features include support for multi-level categories and pages, category exclusion, choose what to display, what order to list items in, show comment counts and / or post dates.

You can access the sitemap of my blog from the top menu or click HERE to see it in action.

Adding a sitemap makes it incredibly easy for any visitor to quickly scan all the categories and posts in my blog. All the information is neatly arranged in a vertical order down the sitemap page. In addition, all my posts are automatically placed under their own categories.

I love this plug-in! Thanks to Dagon Design!

If you wish to generate a sitemap for your blog, you can download the plug-in here:

Sitemap Generator Plugin for WordPress

I was surfing Smashing Magazine website, and I’ve found some very beautiful icon sets. Premium quality, but yet free for download. Check them out HERE.

I’ve chosen a RSS and e-mail icon for my blog. Did you see them? They are just so cute!

Let’s pick one for your blog too!

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