Webdev: May 2003 Archives
Many companies pay a lot of many to have somebody design their web site. This person has to decide on the colours, structure, fonts and page layout used. It takes a lot of experience to get this right.
But now there is a new method, which is way cheaper: StrangeBanana: Computer-generated webpage design. Just let Strange Banana create some random designs for you, and pick the one you like. Simple as that...
Being a user of Movable type and a player of Blogshares, I have been looking to combine those things: it would be awesome to see Blogshares information on my site.
After looking around a little bit, I found MTBlogShares from David Raynes. His plugin lets me publish all kinds of information from blogshares on my site, but the one thing I have been looking for has not been implemented yet.
So David, if you read this, could you implement this in your plugin for me, since my programming knowlegde is by far not as good as yours:
Using your plugin it is possible to obtain the URL of each stock's blogshares page. The only thing that I want is a possibility to remove the string http://www.blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=, so that I have the URL of the site in question. This allows me to create a list with links to sites I own shares of. As soon as the blogshares spider visits my site and picks up those links, the total value of the blogs I have shares in will increase, making my shares worth more.
Well, what do you think about this idea? I think a lot of people will use your plugin if you have implemented this option.
As I continue defining the information shown on the main page, I find the list of archives by date way too long. I have been thinking about how to solve this problem. The nicest way would be to group all dates by year and make a dynamical menu showing the months when clicking on the year. This would requiere some advanced JavaScript, and visitors without JavaScript would still see the whole list.
I went to look for other solutions, and came across Brad Choate: Year Archives in MT. Brad describes a way of creating a page showing a year calendar. I guess I'm going to implement this the coming days...
