Blog Tips

The past few weeks, I have been quite busy working with RSS feeds. I continue to be surprised about the possibilities RSS gives us, bloggers and web developers alike.

Here is an overview of the tools I discovered:

From RSS feed to Javascript: Feed2JS

If you want to spice up a page on your website, or integrate a feed into a blog widget, then have a look at Feed2JS. They offer an easy, fast and gratis way to convert any RSS feed into a simple Javascript. Each time the page with that Javascript is run, it displays the contents of the feed as if it were content on your page.

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HTML is really much easier than it looks. Ok, let me re-state that: when publishing a blog, the groundwork is already done for us, we are left to play with the goodies: fiddling around with the text and images. And fiddling we do!

Someone asked me how to put a text within a scroll bar. Here we go:

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It seems many people are still struggling on how to post a video on their blog.

It is really simple, actually. If you have a video on your computer you would want to publish, the first thing you need to do is to upload it to a video sharing site. I use YouTube. Registration is for free, and the reliability is good.

If you want to publish your video, or any other video from YouTube (or an other video sharing site), you need to look for something which is labeled as “Embedded Code”. It is a line of code which looks like this:

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