Adding external content management to Blogger Pro

Adding marker tags to a Blogger Pro template is a way of layering content management capabilities on top of the basic ...

Creating a Javascript headlines feed

Pro2sumjs automatically creates Javascript code for a headlines feed from any weblog that's been marked up for use with ...

PHP functions temporarily down

Because of a 'network problem' at the hosting provider, Hostcentric, PHP functions (most notably Pro2rss and related ...

Creating an at-a-glance weblog archive index

Pro2sum outputs titles and opening lines for any weblog page that has been set up to include "id" attributes as ...

Page template skins with PHP

The same template framework I used with SSI last week works just as well with PHP, which is the obvious choice for use ...

Using page template skins with server side includes

Here is a live example of how Loosely Coupled uses the template framework I wrote about last week. I've just created a ...

Truncated words eliminated in Pro2rss 0.95

A small revision to Pro2rss makes some small cosmetic improvements: The main change pares off truncated words and ...

Converting RSS to HTML, step one

Yesterday I created Rss2view as the first step towards being able to publish RSS feeds as HTML. Why would I want to do ...

A manageable page template framework

One of the most difficult challenges when building a site using several different online services is maintaining a ...

Top 10 guidelines for homepage design

This article by Jakob Nielsen, the father of website usability, is a superb digest of the key elements to bear in mind ...

Pointing RSS links to anchors on the weblog front page

Instead of pointing to permalinks, some Pro2rss users will prefer to point the links in their RSS feeds to anchor ...

Hosting provider set up unwanted DNS entries

The glitch last week that meant Pro2rss didn't work for my own blog was finally resolved on Friday. It had been caused ...

Why you should host DNS separately

Hosting DNS separately is a small extra expense that repays itself in many ways. The domain name system (DNS) is ...

Some handy references for regular expressions

I found it very difficult to get my head round regular expressions when doing the code for Pro2rss, and I still need to ...

Adding an RSS feed to a Blogger Pro blog

With the addition of the RSS feed, the Loosely Coupled weblog now has its full complement of features, and work can ...