Ticket #1164: Notes on Introducing Piwik.txt

File Notes on Introducing Piwik.txt, 3.0 KB (added by idw, 22 months ago)
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1Language: US English
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4What is Piwik?
5- Adapted from http://piwik.org/
6- Award winning from http://piwik.org/blog/2009/09/piwik-wins-best-of-open-source-enterprise-software-web-analytics/
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8Introduction to Web Analytics
9- How Piwik Works: original
10Case studies
11http://piwik.org/blog/2009/11/piwik-goal-tracking-how-i-optimized-my-affiliate-income/
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13Features
14- Original (most in need of improvement)
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16Tour
17- Dashboard - original
18- Others - to be written
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20Installing and Configuring Piwik in 5 Minutes
21- Updated from http://piwik.org/docs/installation/
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23Improving Your Site
24- Campaigns. Adapted from http://dev.piwik.org/trac/ticket/604
25- Goals from http://piwik.org/docs/tracking-goals-web-analytics/
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27Sharing
28- Other users - original
29- Email reports - original
30- Embedding - original except permissions text from Piwik itself
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33Customizing
34- Using the API - adapted from http://dev.piwik.org/trac/wiki/API
35- Plugins/developing - original
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37Glossary
38- Original (and sparse)
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41Thoughts:
42- There's an argument for integrating HTTP Auth plugin to make securing the API simpler
43- If we get a manual agreed there ought to be some process of checking the manual is update to date before each release... the installation has changed but the guide hasn't
44- For consistency, the Go! button on the database set up form should be Next »
45- There are no instructions for creating the database yourself. What permissions the user needs should be specified.
46GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER ON databasename.* TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
47- Maybe there should be a default username for the super user? And is the term 'super user' helpful? Piwik administrator or something is less... techie? Finally, 'General setup' should read something like 'Administrator details'
48- The JavaScript Tag page on stage 8 of the install is massively overcomplicated. It's basically trying to make up for the lack of a manual. The page should simply say here's your tag, and everything else should be in a manual somewhere under Advanced Piwik-most people will never need to know.
49- Surely "How to install Piwik.html" has no place? A URL in README would suffice.
50- Referrers -> Evolution should be Referrers -> Overview and why does the graph only include direct entry?
51- Changing a site name doesn't seem to save
52- Date thing is horribly confusing... needs a beginning and an end
53- Are search engine spiders excluded?
54- The Add user UX is clunky. The table turns into a form, no warning of password constraints, no obvious submit button... you have to guess that you're meant to press Edit to save.
55- PDF reports is a great feature, that GA makes horrible to use. Deserves a better flag than 'PDF'. Similarly the title to that page... 'Manage Email Reports' would be more friendly.
56- Inconsistent use of confirmation messages (e.g. none when you create a new PDF report), exclamation marks sometimes not always. Low priority good to agree a standard to work towarads.