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Written by GJ
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I've done a lot over the last few days, although it's not visible.
I changed the CMS (Content Management System) to Drupal, then back to Joomla. Nothing is perfect, and at some point I'll end up doing the site from scratch.
In order to make maintenance of this site easy, I save feeds using Blogrolling. One click to save a feed. But you can't merely output those aggregated feeds to a feed reader or widget. In the past I've exported the feeds, manually edited the saved file, uploaded the edited file to my webserver, and accessed that file. I found a server-based aggregator to do that, but it didn't have the flexibility for multiple categories and feeds. After spending many hours searching for a tool or service that would meet my needs, I wrote a custom PHP script that takes feeds from Blogrolling, modifies the OPML file, and outputs a format my reader can recognize. It took many hours, but the added flexibility is great.
Still trying to find the format that would be most useful.
As always, feedback is welcome. |
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Written by GJ
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Working mainly on feed, trying to find a good feed aggregator. A feed aggregator takes all the individual feeds, in this case blog feeds, and puts them together, "aggregates", in a format that can be recognized by a feed reader. A feed reader interprets the aggregator output, and parses out the individual feeds into a format that can be read. Different feed readers have significantly different ways of accomplishing this. Currently I use a widget that displays the feeds in an attractive interface that can be seen here. While the reader is working fine, I'm not opposed to a different reader that might work better with the aggregator I end up using. |
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Written by GJ
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Last night I was able to correct most of the display problems in Internet Explorer. Still remaining are the following IE issues:
At high resolutions it still spaces the right side bar too far to the right, I’d like to figure out a way to align that side bar to the left. Priority 3
Blue border around the Google search box on the page header. Priority 5
Added the Google video feed to the home page. Had to create a new module to do it, but that was easy. Need to test that the feed is updating.
Added submenus to feeds. Menu work is about done.
Need to find a good feed aggregator so that new blogs to be added to the reader don’t have to be done manually.
Need to add suicide / crisis prevention information
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Written by GJ
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In this "blog" I will enter development notes. This may be what has been done, what needs to be done, and ideas. |
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Developer Blog