Hey everyone. Mayhap you've noticed the Highfiber blog widget sitting on my personal blog since Tuesday. I've run it for the past 48 hours and haven't noticed any big issues so I thought I'd offer it up to anybody interested to give it a spin.
You'll need a couple of things to get started:
1. A blog that you can edit the template of, i.e., to add a line of javascript.
2. A tiny bit of HTML knowledge, just so you don't totally fuck up your blog and then blame me for it.
3. That's it, actually. All you have to do is copy the snippet below and paste it wherever you want within your blog template (it works better on sidebars, because of the vertical orientation):
<script language="Javascript" src="http://highfiber.org/users/luis/widgets.js"></script>
Obviously you will need to change the exact URL, otherwise it will load up MY content instead of yours. That's the bit that goes:
http://highfiber.org/users/luis/widgets.js
You would just need to take replace "luis" with whatever your highfiber login name is. And that's it! It should work immediately, unless you got your username wrong. (Because I write perfect code of course, and nothing every breaks.)
The widget itself is pretty simple. It's just a real-time minified version of your personal user page on highfiber. I haven't had time to really add any customizable bits to it yet, but as it stands right now, this will be useful for those of you who cross-post content on both your blog and on our forums.
If you've got the widget installed already, leave a comment here with a link to your blog so I can check it out. It'd be really helpful to see it on a variety of different layouts so I know what to fix or improve.
Thanks guys!
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posted by
Jots18, 4 months ago
thanks for this. appreciated.!
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posted by
crazymerrick, 4 months ago
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posted by
hilarion, 4 months ago
a query: all i see are the codes inside the window man, not the actual widget. does my browser have anything to do with this? i'm using safari on MAC at work.
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posted by
acer3ya1, 4 months ago
coolness!! :P
my blog :P.
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posted by
minor, 4 months ago
oi been waiting for this :D running smooth on my blog
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posted by
Quentin, 4 months ago
awesome. hafta re design mi blog before i do any fancy stuff
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posted by
Chrisangelo, 4 months ago
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posted by
musikero, 4 months ago
the last time i posted a blog on my account was nov of 2007... have to edit some things first.
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posted by
minor, 4 months ago
ei chris ganda ng blog mo same theme pa tayo
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posted by
hilarion, 4 months ago
goddammit, it IS my browser. it works fine on firefox. anyways, here's mine:
sporadic procrastination
not sure if the link code will work. wutev.
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posted by
darthjesus, 4 months ago
tweaking LJ, doesn't seem to work on free accounts
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posted by
minjiemeiji, 4 months ago
Woot Woot!
the widget is available for everyone...weee [+]
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posted by
spidamang, 4 months ago
Bored Blather
If you want it centered, this worked in Blogger:
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posted by
spidamang, 4 months ago
oops. guess that tag don't work anymore. :(
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posted by
minor, 4 months ago
to center just use
p align="center"
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posted by
chelsea, 4 months ago
i tried using it in wordpress and in i.ph but it doesnt seem to work. most of you are using blogspot. hhmm.
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posted by
acer3ya1, 4 months ago
^ something's wrong with your blog :P
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posted by
Chrisangelo, 4 months ago
Has anybody tried opening their blogs with the widget on IE? Chelsea told me that everytime she opens her blog using IE, a download page pops up saying you are downloading this widget from highfiber.org
So I decided to check it out using my IE (Since I'm using MF everyday) and yes, the download page pops up to. Anybody experiencing the same problem?
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posted by
luis, 4 months ago
Thanks Chris, will see if I can replicate the issue.
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posted by
luis, 4 months ago
Ok, I've resolved the issue. Seems to work on my blog, but let me know if anyone else still gets that "file download" alert. (Don't forget that you may need to do a hard-refresh before you get the new code.)
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posted by
darthjesus, 4 months ago
still nothing on my blog, kuya luis. as soon as i paste and save it, it does not even appear even if i view the page source. i think LJ just can haz not do it.
http://darth-jesus.livejournal.com/
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posted by
Chrisangelo, 4 months ago
Luis: Covered. No more file download alert on IE. Thanks man.
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posted by
luis, 4 months ago
@darthjesus -- LJ probably doesn't allow javascript to be added to its templates. I might look at making a Flash widget in the future, but for now I need to focus on making this javascript-based one customizable.
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posted by
musikero, 4 months ago
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posted by
chelsea, 4 months ago
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posted by
chelsea, 4 months ago
darthie, i had the same problem when i was using wordpress and i.ph. good thing blogger has that java thingy feature.
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posted by
chinichinchin, 3 months ago
it works! can't wait for the customizable version to match my blog's theme. hehe...
http://chini.paglalakbay.biz
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posted by
linuxbastard, 3 months ago
great work luis.
yeah, being able to control the shape size and colors, even just for the borders, would help in integrating the widget into a blog.
but all in all, it's a great wittle widgy pidgy, considering that it worked right out of the box.
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posted by
linuxbastard, 3 months ago
oh yeah,
it works and it's here:
http://linuxbastard.is-a-geek.com
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posted by
Nymos, 3 months ago
Got it...
Now at my blog.
Thanks.
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posted by
watanabe, 2 months ago
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posted by
devilhimself, 2 months ago
you guys are good... wish i had the same skills/talent/divine intervention...
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