Eclectic Randomness: Site Credits

Site Credits

These are just a few notes, on the hacks, widgets, and tricks that were used to get the ER website page looking good and working properly.

Site Design

  • Template - "Picture Window" stock template, provided by Blogger.

Widgets

  • Menu Bar - Standard template navigation menu
  • Link Up - Custom icons created by Winter Ventura
  • About Me - Custom code
  • Random Thoughts - Twitter widget by Twitter.com. link
  • Language Translation - "Translate" widget by Blogger, powered by Google Translate
  • Email Newsletter - "Follow by EMail" widget by Blogger, powered by Feedburner

Page Content

  • Contact Form - Free custom form provided and processed by Jotform. link

Hacks and Tricks

  • External links open new window - Miss P. link
  • Remove stock "powered by Blogger" attribution - Sureyea G. link
  • Collapsible page sections ... "spoilers" - ApOgEE link
  • Submit to Reddit button ... ugly hacks by Winter Ventura code
    <!-- Begin "Submit to r/SL button -->

    <script type='text/javascript'>
    document.write("&lt;a target='_blank' href='http://www.reddit.com/r/");
    document.write("sl"); /* subreddit */
    document.write("/submit?url=");
    document.write("<data:post.url/>"); /* blogger token for the post/page URL */
    document.write("&amp;title=");
    document.write(escape("<data:post.title/>")); /* blogger token for the post/page title */
    document.write("'&gt;&lt;img src='");
    document.write("http://i.imgur.com/AtNbJQP.png"); /* "grey" button image */
    document.write("' onmouseover='this.src=\"");
    document.write("http://i.imgur.com/kkSFPIT.png"); /* "color" buttom image */
    document.write("\"' onmouseout='this.src=\"");
    document.write("http://i.imgur.com/AtNbJQP.png"); /* "grey" button image again */
    document.write("\"'/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;");
    </script>

    <!-- End "Submit to r/SL button -->