Radio Progress

	Saturday, February 08, 2003

Cool!

While surfing the Radio top 100 list, I notice that The Cartoonist has a simple search box just below the calendar.  I didn't think I could find a free service (such as Google) until I got my own domain. I thought wrong.

So I added a search box using Pico's free search service. Now I am compliant with Day 29's recommendations for a more accessible website.

1:48:17 PM  comment [] | Categories: 80-20 Web Development, Radio Progress| Topics: goodWeblogs KM Radio_Development Web_Tricks 

	Sunday, October 13, 2002

This template reconstruction process is more difficult than you would think. Apparently others are going through the same struggle that I am. I just rediscovered this resource which I have overlooked because the title threw me off - thanks to Dog Newsie for pointing it out.

How to Create a Theme is a good resource for people reconstructing their templates. Even if you have no interest in creating a theme for others to use, this tutorial provides a useful checklist for home template, item template, desktop homepage template macros to include.

5:15:35 PM  comment [] | Categories: Radio Docs, Radio Goals, Radio Progress, Radio Questions| Topics: CSS 

	Sunday, September 29, 2002

(In response to this Radio discussion thread)

The numeric code for an apostrophe is 39 (according to the W3C HTML Coded Character Set page). Edit your post in "Source" mode, where you can see the HTML tags. Position your cursor where you would like the apostrophe to appear. Type the following five characters:

1. An ampersand        &
2. A pound sign          #
3. The number three  3
4. The number nine    9
5. A semicolon            ;

Josef Tornick's Weblog is a breakthrough in quality and cleverness.

3:04:10 PM  comment [] | Categories: Html 1-A, Radio Docs, Radio Progress| Topics: HTML 

	Friday, September 27, 2002

The viewRSSBox verb generates an HTML version of an RSS news feed, reading the service if necessary. This verb caches RSS feeds and re-reads them only if the cache has expired or the service hasn't been read.

Research question: can users hosting their weblogs on the Userland CS use this?

See Also: the viewRSSBox macro.

11:06:17 PM  comment [] | Categories: Radio Docs, Radio Goals, Radio Progress|

	Monday, September 23, 2002

<A href="http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=rapport">rapport</A>

9:25:23 PM  comment [] | Categories: 80-20 Web Development, Radio Progress|

	Sunday, September 22, 2002

Registered at AllConsuming.net. This snippet lists what I am currently reading (it's a little munged):

<style type="text/css"> <!-- .ac_image     {} .ac_link      {} .ac_image_tag {} .ac_title     {} .ac_comment   {} .ac_logo      {} --> </style> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.allconsuming.net/xml/users/currently_reading.blogfish.js"> </script>

Benefits of AllComsuming (notes to myself):

• Fetches the book cover image for you.
• Forwards users to Amazon using your affiliate id. (I think, I need to confirm this assumption).
• Lists users that read what you read.
• Recommends books based on reading lists of users from (see above).

8:43:23 PM  comment [] | Categories: Radio Progress|

	Saturday, September 21, 2002

A Trick:

Drop a #navigatorLinks file into a category folder. Edit the file (remove links not relevant to said category). Post an item to that category. Check out its home page. Look any different?

Variations:

• Use a different blogroll for each category; include all blogrolls on weblog homepage.
• There is probably a way to use markpasc's active renderer for bookmarks.

The bonus of using #navigatorLinks is that the category can continue to use the MainTemplate from the www folder (#template.txt). The latest tweaks to the look and feel will be reflected consistently accross your site.

8:26:07 PM  comment [] | Categories: Radio Progress|