Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Subscribing to a Weblog Via Bloglet Google Search It Okay, I have finally been able to get Bloglet close to working.  I previously tried this but couldn't figure out a few of the settings.  This time when I tried, instead of specifying the weblog type as "Radio", I used RSS.  I also changed the server entry to be my rss file (http://mark.michaelis.net/weblog/rss.xml).  This seemed to enable everything and "Test Connection" passed.  I confess that I haven't actually received an email yet but I am hoping that this is due to a normal delay in service. By the way, the final code that I added to my home page to allow users to subscribe was as follows: <!-- BEGIN_CUSTOM_EDIT -->     <form method="post" action="http://www.bloglet.com/subscribe.asp">     <input type="hidden" name="ID" value="2081" />     Subscribe To<br />     <b>Mark's Weblog</b><br />     <input type="text" name="email" value="" size="7" maxlength="100" />     <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="subscribe"       style="CLEAR: none; OVERFLOW: hidden; WIDTH: 100%;" ID="Submit1"/><br />     <input type="hidden" name="redirect"       value="http://mark.michaelis.net/weblog" /> <!-- END_CUSTOM_EDIT -->   10:36:25 PM   []    comment []

Google Search of WebLog Google Search It I added a google search button to my weblog yesterday.  The following code was placed into my homepage template: <!-- BEGIN_CUSTOM_EDIT -->   <p>     <FORM method=GET action=http://www.google.com/custom>;     <INPUT TYPE=text name=q size=7 maxlength=255 value="">     <INPUT type=submit name=sa VALUE="Search">     <br>     <input type=hidden name=sitesearch value="mark.michaelis.net" checked>     <input type=hidden name=filter value="0" checked>     </FORM>   </p> <!-- END_CUSTOM_EDIT --> This adds the following text box and button: I took the code from the Radio Userland Search page.  Originally it included a line: <INPUT type=hidden name=cof VALUE="AH:center;AWFID:901e54b48f490ab5;"> but I didn't know what that did and removing it did not seem to have any effect so I didn't include it. Two features I would like to add it to limit searches to a particular category and not enable my homepage as a valid result.  Unfortunately, I was not able to figure out how to have Google limit the search beyond just a domain. 1/22/03: See followup discussion More on the Google It Macro. 10:16:59 AM   []    comment []

Google It Macro Google Search It I came across the Google It macro yesterday and added it to my item template immediately below the title of each item.  The code I used was as follows: <!-- BEGIN_CUSTOM_EDIT -->   <br><font class="small" size="-1" color="gray" ><EM>   <%radio.macros.googleIt (<%itemNum%>, "Search on it")%></EM></font> <!-- END_CUSTOM_EDIT --> I actually wanted to use HTML text (specifically the Google Logo) in place of the "Search on it" text above but I couldn't figure out how to do this.  Only simply text seemed to be allowed.  I posted a question on this topic. 10:11:51 AM   []    comment []

Google Logo Google Search It In playing around with the Google It Radio Userland macro I wanted to use the Google logo.  I was surprised to learn that this is simply text which the following HTML produces. <font face="times" color="#0039b6">G</font> <font face="times" color="#c41200">o</font> <font face="times" color="#f3c518">o</font> <font face="times" color="#0039b6">g</font> <font face="times" color="#30a72f">l</font> <font face="times" color="#c41200">e</font> This shows up as: G o o g l e 9:58:13 AM   []    comment []

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