Yummy!
This new skin (which I have dubbed "mabster360") has opened up a whole world of possibilities.
At the risk of too much "blog flair", I'm adding a whole bunch of new sidebar boxes with content specific to me. For example, you've probably already noticed my Xbox Live Gamercard box over there.
If you look down towards the bottom of the sidebar now, you'll notice my new "yummy links" box. It shows the last ten things that I have posted to del.icio.us (hence the box's title). Having this new box will probably inspire me to save more links in del.icio.us so that others can see them on my blog.
One day my sidebar will stretch down so far that you'll have to spend the better part of a day scrolling to see it all. When that day comes, my work here will be complete. :-)
Comments
# Dave Burke
19/05/2006 1:43 PM
This is looking good! I'm always impressed with controls generating code from RSS like your yummy control. Such a cool technology. I don't know anything about XBox, but I like that control, too. Nice, Mabster!
# mabster
19/05/2006 1:49 PM
Thanks, Dave!
The boxes in the sidebar are actually all based on that Xbox Gamercard. Its layout is defined by the Xbox team, and you embed it on your site using an IFrame.
I was originally going to have a mix of different designs for the sidebar boxes, but the gamercard looks so good I decided to base my other boxes off it. I hope the Xbox team don't decide to change it for a while! ;-)
As for my yummy control - I have to admit that it's a javascript control rather than reading RSS. The fine folks at del.icio.us explain how to do it in their documentation.
As I find other cool things around the net I'll chuck them onto the sidebar too. I'm particularly keen to play with the tag cloud that comes with CS 2.1!
# Dave Burke
20/05/2006 12:43 AM
tag cloud. Yummy!
Actually I came back to ask you if the delicious box was javascript or a real control. :-) You already answered my question!