RSS5 Simple but useful JavaScript snippits
JavaScript can be employed on your website to perform an whole multitude of simple, but quite effective, tasks that make your job as a web developer that little bit easier. Over time, we have compiled a library of these little JavaScript snippets and we have listed a few of our favourites here.
1. ‘Previous Page’ link
This snippet will take the user back to the previous page that they have viewed. Pretty much like the standard browser back button really:
<a href="javascript:history.back(1)">Previous Page</a>
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UK Postal Counties List
On a recent project, we were required to create a drop down list to display the UK’s counties as part of a web form collecting users addresses. We assumed that this would be a pretty standard task and that there would be an abundance of pre-configured lists available on the Internet for download. After about an hour of research, it became clear that it was not going to be that simple. All of the lists we unearthed were either incomplete or out of date and it seems that we were not the first developers to run into this trouble.
You can see how it is easy to get it wrong though, take a look at the Wikipedia list of UK counties. The list of counties has changed quite considerably over time, especially in Wales.
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Create an RSS feed with PHP
Having an RSS feed on your website is a great way of sharing your content with the rest of the Internet. It’s not a new technology and it’s probably something that you use on a daily basis. If you have a blog or use any form of CMS, that software will most likely handle the creation of your RSS feed for you.
Sometimes, however, it might be necessary for you to create a RSS feed yourself. Perhaps you have just won a new client who’s current site has a old bespoke CMS which they like and want to keep, but you want to be able to publish their updated content via RSS. Hopefully this tutorial will help you to achieve this.
What is RSS?
RSS, in its current form, stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a family of web formats to publish frequently updated content. The RSS Feed (as it is commonly known) can then be read by the users feed reading software or by another website which wishes to ’syndicate’ the content of that feed.
Welcome to Carron Media
Welcome to the brand new Carron Media website and blog. Here you will find out all about us, what we do and the services we provide. Our blog will be regulary updated with industry news and useful tutorials covering a wide range of web design and development skills.
We will also post any new tips and tricks we pick up along the way that we think may help you with your projects. We here are Carron Media really appreciate the wealth of knowledge that is available on the Internet and we would like to be able to contribute to this is our own little way. After all, we learnt how to do all this stuff by browsing other blogs and websites and feel it is only fair to carry on that tradition.
Hopefully while you are here, you will get a to know us a bit better, so please feel free to get in touch with any questions, requests for new blog articles or just for general advice. We will try to help you out as much as possible.
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