Adding RSS to your website
December 12th, 2005 by Sarah KingThis is the main page of a series (yet to be written) of How-To guides for adding RSS feeds to your website.
It’ll cover HTML and PHP scripted sites and all the tools will be free to use.
Why HTML? Well, some blogging systems and the Blogger sites don’t allow the user to add serverside scripts. Poop to them, but until they relax or allow some controlled way around it then those sites need to be treated as pure HTML.
| Method | Type | Cache | 3rd Party? | SEF | Score | Demo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magpie RSS | PHP | Yes | No | Yes | 10 | here |
| DOMIT! RSS | PHP | Yes | No | Yes | 5 | here |
| CaRP | PHP | Yes | No | Yes | 4 | here |
| SimplePie | PHP | Yes | No | Yes | 10 | here |
Google gets Analytical
November 16th, 2005 by Sarah KingIf you’ve read this blog before you’ll know that I’ve just launched RealState and am building up the functionality. It’s early days, and the domain is sandboxed so I’m not terribly anxious about how much traffic it gets – not yet anyway!
But I was thinking that I should put WebAnalyse onto it so that I have some tracking and I stumbled over another blog talking about Google Analytics. I shuddered at the thought of Google getting into the hitcounter game, it seemed like such a backward step. And I usually like to control my data but Google is trusted, surely they won’t shut up shop and leave me statistics-less? Read the rest of this entry »
Rollyo delivers a new web search
November 11th, 2005 by Sarah KingRollyo have released a workable form of their search tool. I found it first looking for a custom search engine and their tool is one step in the right direction. It’s really only good for having a search between grouped sites, or between friends (with a limit of 25 sites per rollyo group) – but it’s a bit of fun. Here’s mine: Read the rest of this entry »
AJAX – finally!
October 11th, 2005 by Sarah KingI’ve been wanting to have a play with AJAX for ages and had book marked Rasmus’ 30 second AJAX Tutorial so tonight I took 30 seconds, which turned into 30 minutes and had a play.
I’ve extended his example slightly – to include a javascript fix and to make it a bit more browser safe – because I have Opera 7 as my test browser and it doesn’t work, but does for Opera 8 (apparantly). Read the rest of this entry »
Direct links to AFS search results
October 9th, 2005 by Sarah KingAdsense for Search (AFS) is the system where you have a Google search box on your site to present targetted ads. Personally I don’t see the attraction but plenty do.
I’ve become aware of an interesting scenario this week exploiting Adsense for Search, one way was smart and I liked it. The other was pure spam. Read the rest of this entry »
Submitting a form using Javascript
September 17th, 2005 by Sarah KingIt’s sometimes necessary to submit a form using javascript rather than by using the normal serverside validation (or as well as). This is a handy example of how to do it… Read the rest of this entry »
Which CMS should I use?
September 9th, 2005 by Sarah KingWhich Content Management System is a common question so I created a page to note my thoughts, but I’ll use this post to record any comments…
Dodgy Adsense Ads
September 7th, 2005 by Sarah KingFor those of us who want to make a few extra bucks from our websites but don’t want the bother of chasing advertisers and hustling Google’s Adsense program is a blessing. You have alot of control over the ads, can block competitors and you have to do virtually nothing to get going. Read the rest of this entry »
