Many blogs display a panel for "recent posts" which rely on server-side scripting. iBlog doesn't do server-side scripting, but you can achieve the same effect by using someone else's sever, the power of RSS, and a bit of JavaScript. Here's how...
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At the top of my sidebar I have had a photograph that is was randomly displayed using JavaScript. How is was this done, and where were the images taken?
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Most hobbyist web developers know how to ensure their (X)HTML, CSS and links are valid. Bloggers can check the validity or their RSS or Atom feeds. Even if your JavaScript knowledge is limited to copy-and-paste (e.g. from JavaScript Source), it's still useful to be able to check that the scripts you are using don't generate errors or warnings.
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If your blog has a fixed-width stylesheet, what do you do when you have an image that is too wide for its container? If you are using iBlog 1.4.1 to drag-and-drop images into the RTF editor, you don't have the option to scale or size-restrict the occasional wide image by styling it directly e.g. <img src="" style="width:450px" />. You do, however, have the option to style a div container using the HTMLCode tag. So how does this help?
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... something that any New Zealander abroad is bound to ask, particularly if they don't plan on disturbing friends or family at an ungodly hour. If you spend a lot of time online (not that I'd know what that's like) their are several ways you can access NZ time without installing shareware or blowing £300 on World Time watch. Here are just a few—care to add to the list?
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Several services on the Internet offer insertion of a dynamically updated RSS feed into a webpage via JavaScript. Typically such tools allow you to create a customized script that you can copy and paste into your page. Actual appearance may be determined by the stylesheet you are using on your own site.
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