Add any location map iframe tag to a sidebar widget For widget-enabled themes only. Add the Text widget to the sidebar of your choice. Edit the Text widget. Copy the iframe text provided by Google into the editing box. For example: <iframe width=”425″ height=”350″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” marginheight=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ src=”http://maps.google.com/maps…”></iframe> <br /><small> <a href=”http://maps.google.com/maps…” style=”color:#0000FF;text-align:left”>View Larger [...]

WordPress allows you to embed hosted movies using only the <object> tag. It works and is compliant in IE7, FireFox and Safari. Here is an example of the embed code and URL provided by YouTube: Copy the URL from the embed code provided, up to the first ampersand (&): Add the following code to your [...]

Readings Social Bookmarking Wikipedia.org, the modern encyclopedia, describes and models social bookmarking technology. Folksonomy Wikipedia.org, the modern encyclopedia, compares taxonomy and folksonomy. Examples Scuttle Host your own social tagging site. Delicious Add links to your own tagging site hosted by del.icio.us then "include" as many as you like on your own servers’s pages. A newish [...]

Readings What are RSS: and Feed: Links? Short and sweet article by brindys. soderlind.no Simple Aggregator Uses the lastRSS library to aggregate RSS feeds in WordPress. 2rss.com News Aggregator Download the scrips and read the docs.htm file. Examples Real Estate News For the demo site built for CS 295 Winter 2005. Uses Moreover.com’s xml feed [...]

Readings How E-commerce Works Marshall Brain. How Stuff Works. Six Principles of Good Commerce Design Shayne Bowman, Chris Willis. Sample Chapter Peachpit Press. Jul 11, 2003. PayPal’s Security Center Excellent example of the kind of security page your site could have. How to Create an E-Commerce Web Site (269k .pdf) Verisign. 2003. Ecommerce is the [...]

Readings How to Choose a Web Host Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.com. 2003 Hosting Your Site Lynda Weinman. New Riders. Feb 28, 2003. Avoid Hidden Web Hosting Costs Carrie Bickner. New Riders. Oct 10, 2003. Assess your needs before choosing a site host. Consider: Budget What can you afford each month/year? Server size How big is your [...]