RSS feed for static sites

YEs, it IS possible to generate a RSS feed even for a static HTML og CMS based site!

This is what to do:

1. Go to http://sitemapdoc.com

2. Click “include RSS and HTML”

3. Generate

4. Click red RSS-button and do it!

5. Copy the result from the new page to something like Notepad

6. Save as feed.xml

7. Upload to your site using FTP og whatever.

8. ????

9. Profit!!!

(8 and 9 er just a joke – step 1 to 7 is all you really need! :-))

Visual analytics – heatmaps

UPDATE:
Check out this one with 100 free website recordings pr. month: http://www.ghostrec.com/pricing/

Yeah, Googla Analytics IS great  – but quite a few systems provide some valuable data that GA does not. I’m thinking about heatmaps and more visual whowing me what the users are doing on my site..

Here are a few systems that can make great heatmaps:  Continue reading

Developing Facebook pages

blonde woman thinking with book on head

So you want to develop Facebook pages?

The best place to start is at the Facebook documentation!

In “the old days” you needed to learn how to use a special markup language called FBML (like HTML, but different 🙂 )
– which you can actually still use: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fbml/

But WAIT! Now you don’t really need to. You can do quite a lot with the Continue reading

How to send big files online

air mailYou might know the problems when sending big files by e-mail: You often just can’t. You ISP’s SMTP-server might only allow sending files at sizes below 5 MB, 10 MB or even 20 megabytes. But sometimes you just need to send a file that is even bigger: e.g. a 100 MB zip-file or 400 MB of CAD drawings.

The solution is to use one of the many great web services that allow uploading big files and then sending the link to the files instead.

These are my favorites:

How to share PowerPoint slides online

I often find myself trubled when deciding how to share PowerPoint slides online..

Sharing videos for showing directly on the webpage is of course very easy, but it when it comes to sharing / presenting slides online, I find it troublesome. I don’t like to link to the PowerPoint since it has to be opened by either the program or in the browser, and I cannot control how it is shown.

But now I finally stumpled upon the solution: just use http://www.slideshare.net/ !
With this great tool/service, you can present your PowerPoint slides online just as if it was a video on YouTube – great!

Take a look at this example to see how it actually works: