Self-Syndication Tips for Writers
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Weekly Column (Manual Rotation)
Not everyone wants to rotate their
content every day. In fact, weekly columns and articles are the most
common kinds of self-syndicated content writers make available. You'll
need a different kind of script, one that essentially turns your HTML
web page into a JavaScript.
Geek Moment: This tutorial assumes
you will understand basic HTML, or can cobble the code from your
editor (usually FrontPage or DreamWeaver) If you are utterly
unfamiliar with basic HTML this might be a bit of a challenge - if it
seems impossible to you, you'll need to learn HTML first. There are
lots of good books on the subject, and many online tutorials. If
you're really lazy, contact me at:
and for $20.00 per article I will create the files for you. I
recommend you give the script a shot first though!
1) First, let's take an imaginary
column that looks like this:
2) Here is the code for that script.
Right-click
here and select (Save Target As) to download a clean text-only copy of
the script. Open it in a text-only editor. DO NOT USE
"WORD" or other fancy word processors. Only use Notepad
or another simple text editor. Save the file as a text file named
"article.js" (you can use any filename followed by .js for
your own scripts).
|
<!--
document.writeln('<p>\<img
border="0" src="http://www.brandijasmine.com/web/images/index.3.jpg"
width="252" height="84">\</p>');
document.writeln('<p
align="center"><em><strong><font
face="Verdana" size="3">This is the title
of my story</font></strong></em><hr></p>');
document.writeln('<p><font
face="Verdana" size="2">I am telling this
amazing story about one writer and her search for content
syndication tools.</p>');
document.writeln('<p>I\'m
throwing in something <a href="http://www.brandijasmine.com">tricky</a>
in this paragraph! Can you spot it?</p></font>');
//--> |
3) There are a few things you'll
notice here.
3a) The script always starts
with <!--
and ends with
//-->
3b) Each line is essentially
the same:
document.writeln('your
content goes here');
Take as many lines as you need
- make sure that it starts with
document.writeln('
and ends with
');.
3c) There are some tricky
bits though! JavaScript does not like apostrophes and some special
characters. You may get JavaScript errors or a blank page if you use
them in your script. How do you avoid them? Simple! If you have text
that JavaScript is objecting to, put a backslash \ in front of the
objectionable text. Can you see them in the final line?
"I'm" is rendered as
I\'m (Thanks
to Darren
Varndell of Chat-Forum for writing to help me to clear this
point up).
3d) Remember that each paragraph or
line in the document must be a single line - whatever you use for an
editor must allow line-wrapping so that all of your text for each
comment in the code stays on a single line.
3e) All URLs and image tags must be
full URLs -
"http://www.brandijasmine.com/web/images/index.3.jpg",
not "../web/images/index.3.jpg".
4) Now all that is left is to give
the following code to your client or partner sites:
<script
language="JavaScript" src="http//www.brandijasmine.com/web/writers/article.js">
</script>
That's it!
