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Blankpixels,This post was originally written befor...

2008-10-14T16:25:00.000-04:00

Blankpixels,
This post was originally written before the advent of Blogger widgets. I'm not surprised that there's an easier way with the widgets.
I still like the more fine control of the "classic" template, but to each their own.
Scott

this might be complicated for people who don't kno...

2008-10-12T22:39:00.000-04:00

this might be complicated for people who don't know much about HTML.
i've posted a simpler way of doing a Scrolling Blogroll in Blogger that is also easy to edit using the BlogList widget.

check out my post:
http://www.justanotherpixel.net/2008/10/how-to-make-scrolling-blogroll-bloglist.html

Rob,No, I've never had Blogrolling crash, but I'm ...

2008-02-11T10:47:00.000-05:00

Rob,

No, I've never had Blogrolling crash, but I'm not a heavy user. Now that the blogroll is running, I maybe modify it once every other month. I've never seen in crash in the webpage.

As for creating an html page, the simplest way is with a text editor. Html files are just text files with some special text in them. Every time you "View Source" in a browser, you're looking at

Oops, one more thing (and it might end up being a ...

2008-02-09T12:03:00.000-05:00

Oops, one more thing (and it might end up being a deal breaker for you), how exactly does one go about making an "html" page to point to?

I say the code source and all that you had but donknow how to make a page. Additionally, I saw that you use blogrolling.com -- Does it crash a lot for you?

It does for me. I actually had a scrolling blogroll for a few days but blogrolling.com

Scott,Actually, I do want to include your blogroll...

2008-02-09T11:51:00.000-05:00

Scott,

Actually, I do want to include your blogroll on my site -- just not as MY blogroll :) Yours was showing up AS MINE and mine, well mine just disappeared. I think you may have solved it for me though. I will check out the page you referenced and see if that works!

My main reason for doing this is that I have been using blogrolling.com and it crashes every other day so I

Rob,Gee, you don't want to include my blogroll on ...

2008-02-07T09:32:00.000-05:00

Rob,

Gee, you don't want to include my blogroll on your site? How disappointing. I could have inserted some Google Ads and made a penny or two off of it. Ah, well.

The key is that you have to have a separate webpage - different from your main page - to refer to. You have to create that page somewhere and include the blogroll code inside that separate page.

The page

HI, I got as far as getting YOUR blogroll to show ...

2008-02-06T14:34:00.000-05:00

HI, I got as far as getting YOUR blogroll to show up in my blog, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to know what needs to be included and what needs to be left out.

anyway to break it down in even simpler terms?

Levian,First, the reason it works on my page is be...

2007-11-05T17:15:00.000-05:00

Levian,

First, the reason it works on my page is because all of my pages are at the same domain (wilkinsons.com). My suspicion is that you're having the IE "across domains" problem.

As for it blending in, depends on what problem you're having. You need to use the same styles (background color, fonts, etc.) of course. As shown in the post, Firefox does a much better job of making

after creating the external page n place it into t...

2007-11-02T21:38:00.000-04:00

after creating the external page n place it into the sidebar using the Object, i can't view it in IE as you had mentioned. but when i view your blog using IE, i can see yours. so i suppose it is not the problem where you wrote: Instruct your users to enable "access data sources across domains" to see the scrolling list content.

how should i fix it ?? i just paste the code you provided.

i've created an external page to display at the si...

2007-11-02T04:58:00.000-04:00

i've created an external page to display at the side of my blog, as a scrolling box. but it doesn't look like part of my blog.

i created an plain html page with all the links i wanted to put in. no fancy stuff at all.

how should i make it look like it is actually blending into my blog ?? thanks. :)

this is soooo freaking sweat many thanks i now fe...

2006-12-27T21:56:00.000-05:00

this is soooo freaking sweat
many thanks
i now feel confident to move my big messy blog to beta and not loose too much data.
www.bibliophilebullpen.com

Thanks! Worked for my MT blog very well. So nice.....

2006-05-27T21:30:00.000-04:00

Thanks! Worked for my MT blog very well. So nice...

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Great blogger hack. I really liked the idea. I've ...

2006-01-07T04:00:00.000-05:00

Great blogger hack. I really liked the idea. I've tried your dynamic scrolling lists and it worked very nicely with Firefox. As indicated in your post it did not work for IE (I am using Blogger's hosting service). I've tried a different approach using iframe that did get around the IE problem. Unfortunately because of an IE bug, that incorrectly interprets the iframe scrolling option, I had to

Instead of putting target="_blank" (or target="_to...

2005-10-25T16:06:00.000-04:00

Instead of putting target="_blank" (or target="_top", for that matter, which I personally find more useful; if someone wants to open a link in a new window I prefer to let them decide that for themselves) in every link of a blog, you can add a <base target="_blank" /> tag somewhere in the <head>...</head> portion of the page with your links, to apply that to every

There are several ways for remove the blogger's na...

2005-10-18T01:54:00.000-04:00

There are several ways for remove the blogger's navbar:

for example:
http://www.francey.org/tutorials/64/removing-blogger-navbar
or
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/archive/index.php/removing-blogger-heading/t-29978.html

Best regards
Mario

Sideshow,I'm sure there's a way, but it's beyond m...

2005-09-29T22:31:00.000-04:00

Sideshow,

I'm sure there's a way, but it's beyond my expertise. There's no simple way that I know of in html. This looks like a job for a nice little javascript. If anyone would like to volunteeer, it would be appreciated and you would be lauded with kudos.

Scott,Is there anyway to have text or html appear ...

2005-09-29T17:20:00.000-04:00

Scott,

Is there anyway to have text or html appear in the empty box when list is viewed in Internet Explorer?

I was thinking of putting something like, "IE used click here to view..."

We've solved noone's problem. It was related to ho...

2005-09-29T09:23:00.000-04:00

We've solved noone's problem. It was related to how his web page server was set up. For anyone else who may experience the same problem, here's how it was diagnosed.

I downloaded a copy of the page so that I could fiddle with it and, indeed, every time that I loaded it, it asked me about downloading the target file (the one inside the object tags).

So, I tried viewing the file

yeh i just put it back in a test blog www.iamnoone...

2005-09-28T16:31:00.000-04:00

yeh i just put it back in a test blog www.iamnooneofblog.blogspot.com
in explorer yesterday it was working. now i get a box but no page.
you can see on the side bar where it should be.

i will email you the page code also
thanks
noone

noone,I tried all sorts of permutations on the cod...

2005-09-28T16:15:00.000-04:00

noone,

I tried all sorts of permutations on the code and I couldn't get it to do what you're describing. Can you point me to the site where you're having trouble, so I can see if it does the same thing for me? If you don't want to post it here, email me at scottw at wilkinsons.com.

Have you tried looking at the page in IE to see if that works? Just another suggestion.

well ok i took your page and it worked fine. then ...

2005-09-28T15:09:00.000-04:00

well ok i took your page and it worked fine. then all i did was replaced the links. that is it. i examined all the other code and they were identical. still when you visit the main page of my site. with firefox it tries to download the html page inside the object tags.
i am using a template from squarespace. i contacted thier support but no luck with that.

Hmmmm. Not a lot to go on there. Let me try an exa...

2005-09-27T09:05:00.000-04:00

Hmmmm. Not a lot to go on there. Let me try an example using a document from this page.

In general, the document that you point to should be able to stand on its own merits. In other words, if you're using object data="http://www.wilkinsons.com/Bananna/Bananaroll.html", then you should be able to point your browser at the document inside the tag (