Two Good Sites

Here is a great article on analytical tools to track website traffic. Google Analytics is good but they hold some information back and so the numbers don't always add up.  I also don't like that I cannot go to the page from where the visitor came from.  Here is the article:  Analytical Tools.  One promising tool is this one:  http://piwik.org/

Here is a cool site that claims all a companies social profiles:  http://piwik.org/

New website designs - Hit or Miss?

Like all fashion website design changes over time.  This design is one of the newer looks out there:   http://stopbadpatents.internetassociation.org/

Here is another site in which the design is cool but the navigation is just frustrating.  http://fortydaysofdating.com/

Visitors often find sites like this difficult to navigate.  For this to be adopted widely Internet users will have to come across this type of design frequently to start to understand the navigation tools.

My recommendation is to stay away from this design for now.  Either website with navigation on the sides of the site will become prevalent or it will go away.  I am guessing it will go away.