[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hchOYs_d_Bw[/youtube]

thanks joe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynBtZqurKaQ

…and here’s what it transcribed:

So I started investigating and playing around with custom cursor pointers embedded in web pages. It seems like there’s two distinct approaches:

1. Actually change the OS’s default cursor using a .cur or .ani file referenced as a url in the CSS
2. Make a small image (or chain of images) follow the cursor around, probably using the onMouseMove function or something

The problem with (2) is that the default OS cursor still remain on the screen. There may be a way to change the OS cursor to a crosshair or something to make it less visible, though.

The problem with (1) is that it only seems to work on Internet Explorer 6 and higher.

But anyway, here’s what you do to achieve the first (1) one:

1. Make a custom cursor using a cursor editing program. I downloaded one called “Sib Cursor Editor” by sibcode.com (good name, guys) and it’s pretty decent. Save the cursor as a .cur or .ani file. Let’s say it’s “foo.cur”.
2. Upload the cursor file to your site, how about in the same dir as the page.
3. Add the following code to the HEAD section of the web page:
   <style>
<!--
BODY{
cursor:url(\"foo.cur\");
}
-->
</style>
4. Open the page in IE 6+

Yeah!

It’s sort of involved, but not too bad.

1. Log in to Crystaltech’s webcontrol center at: http://www.webcontrolcenter.com/
2. Click on DNS>Domain Registration Admin
3. For the domain in question, select the Registry Key Code, press Ctrl-C to copy it to the clipboard, and click on the Manage link. This is basically a link to Melbourne IT.
4. On Melbourne’s site, enter the domain name and press Ctrl-V to paste the registry key code.
5. Click on Transfer Management to Melbourne and follow those steps.
6. View all domains, and click on the domain in question to Manage it.
7. Click on Change Nameservers and set them to ns1.bluehost.com and ns2.bluehost.com, and click Continue.
8. Click on View Domain Password. It will appear in orange at the top-right of the screen. Took me a sec to find it at first! Select it and Copy it to the clipboard.
9. Log in to Bluehost’s control center at: http://www.bluehost.com/
10. Click on Transfer Domain.
11. Enter the domain name in question and click Proceed.
12. Paste the Registry Auth Code into the box and click Email The Code. Now a Proceed button should appear at the very bottom of this long page.
13. Click the Proceed button!
14. Pay for the transfer and 1 year extension ($10).
15. Go back to the Bluehost control panel and click on Addon Domains. Fill out the form and click Add Domain.
16. Go back to Crystaltech’s webcontrol center and remove the domain from DNS>Extra Domain Admin by clicking Delete.

Bye.

1. Go to http://www.google.com/analytics/
2. Apparently an Analytics account is associated with a Google or gmail account. Probly multiple sites per Google account, who knows. So, that’s needed.
3. Then you fill out some personal information with which you hope Google won’t do anything evil.
4. Finally you get a snippet of code that you stick in the footer.php of your WordPress blog. Put it before the </body> tag.
5. The Google Analytics site will now show you a table with your site listed. Apparently it takes several hours for the stats to start showing up.

Sites
http://wordpress.tv/2009/05/29/getting-started-with-google-analytics/
http://www.google.com/analytics/