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| Setting up a web site: links to your notes | |
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If you have put your notes or materials onto a web log using Blogger (or to access any other sources or applications that have what is called an RSS Feed) then you can have either just headings or headings + the first part of the entries listed on your web page. Instead of using Add Flake, this time click on Add Feed.
Then (unless you wish to use one from the 'popular' list provided) click on Enter Feed:
Type or paste into the address box the RSS link that Blogger (or others) provide. The Blogger notes tell you where to find this. On other sites look for an RSS symbol, usually reddish-orange.
Click on Go and the title of your web log should appear. Then click on Add to my page.
In this example default settings in both Pageflakes and Blogger meant that just headings are shown, and only the 5 most recently published. This may be ideal and is very neat but to change it, Edit the panel.
Here the number of posts has been increased and the first few words of each entry are featured in the panel.
The example above shows just the 10 headings.
Instead of appearing for every heading, choosing tooltips will make the content appear in a box when students run the mouse over the heading.
Clicking on an entry will open the whole item, but still within your web page. the illustration above has been cut off - the text is usually full width. That window will also have a link to your web log itself. The use of these Really Simple Syndication features is getting increasingly popular because, although they sound impossibly geeky and complicated, applications like Pageflakes make them accessible to normal people. Until someone comes up with an even better idea they are likely to flourish and, for now, provide a superb addition to your site which will save you hours of publishing time.
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| site design and content by Andrew Hill: updated 3 September, 2006 |
