Widgets, more widgets

Monday, March 24th, 2008 202 views

Finally, I've completed the first section of the re-build : the walks. All my old walks content has now been refreshed and migrated but that still left me with a couple of content gaps. And what better fillers than widgets. A quick search and I found a really good widget site, Yourminis. Now ...

Google maps and KML

Sunday, March 9th, 2008 180 views

As part of the re-build of londonforfree, I wanted to freshen up the google maps, particularly to replace the pink pin icons with actual images of the different locations on each map and make the maps more interactive. This led me to discover KML (a file format and schema based on ...

SpringWidgets - or the long way of embedding a blog

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 144 views

For ages, I've been trying to figure out a way of extracting (only) the content of my FAQ blog and providing it within the layout of my new site. Sounds easy enough - you'd think. I guess technically this means something like exporting posts from Blogger in XML format and then ...