The Google Analytics Blog is reporting that Actual Metrics is hosting a free webinar of the new Urchin 6 software. The demo will show you some of the new features of Urchin 6 and how it differs from Google Analytics.

Interested? Sign up for one of the sessions bellow.

• Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 - 19:00 CET
• Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 - 21:00 CET
• Friday, April 25th, 2008 - 18:00 CET

I went to a Drupal trainingsession yesterday at the University of Antwerp. I was familiar with the concept but I hadn’t seen it in action yet. (Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. “http://drupal.org/about“)

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UK-based web design company Message carries out an online survey which aims to answer some fundamental questions about usability on the web. The company found that ideas about what constitutes ‘readable’ text are based on tried-and-tested rules from the world of print. The survey is aimed at building a statistical picture on the subject.

The second post on the brand new GWO blog announces that in the future Google Website Optimizer will also be available outside of AdWords. The standalone version will have a slightly different interface, but the functionality will be very similar to the integrated version.

Great news, because you now can use Website Optimizer to A/B test both your AdWords landing pages and landing pages from other channels such as Yahoo! and email marketing campaigns.

The number of senior citizens that surf the web has increased by 40% according to a study by Beweb. This means that it is becoming more and more important to create a website that’s accessible and usable by everyone. By implementing a few easy steps you can improve the experience for all your users.

• Use colors that have a contrast that’s just right
• Use large enough font-sizes
• Allow all users to resize their text size by using relative font-sizes
• Use relevant link texts

Want to learn more about Web Accessibility? Download the free “Dive into Accessibility” e-Book.

Charlie Holbech, Head of Partner Division, announced today that IndexTools has positively agreed to be acquired by search engine Yahoo!. IndexTools believes that their technology platform combined with Yahoo!’s extensive offering of on-line marketing services will provide their partners and clients an unsurpassed marketing tool set. As both a Yahoo! Search Marketing Partner as well as an IndexTools Key Alliance Partner, QueroMedia is very eager to see which synergy the acquisition of an enterprise-level analytics tool by a major search engine will create.