Web Maintenance: No sense recreating the wheel
This is a touchy subject, but I am a supporter 100%. There are millions of things you can do on the internet these days. And odds are someone else already has what you are looking for on your site. Be it some cool graphic, some format, or even just a cheesy applet you like, either way adding these things to your website is not an impossible task. It’s usually… quite easy.
To start there is something I need to explain called source code. Every site has it. Source code is the underlying code that makes the webpage do what it does. To view this source code all you need to do is go to the menu of your browser, select “View” then go down to “Page Source”. This will open a source code display of the page you are currently looking at. If you want to get more specific, in Firefox (http://www.firefox.com), you can select the part you wish to view the source of, right click inside (as if you were going to copy), and select “View selected source”. This will give a display of only the source code involved in the highlighted area.
Once you have found the source code you want, all you need to do is insert it into your page. This requires HTML know-how so if you do not know how to do this, contact me or someone who does. Now granted this may not do the trick 100%, especially if the code requires something, but following this tactic can get you just about anything you need on your site.
If you cannot get what you want working yourself, please feel free to give me a shout and I will do what I can to help with the project.
Until next time!
~Geoff
