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I Need YOUR Help

Posted on 05 September 2007
Tags: Blogging

I’m looking to find someone who can help me create a simple widget- I’m completely dumb about this and it’s not real estate related… does anyone know anyone that knows anyone who could help?

12 Responses to “I Need YOUR Help”

Jeff Brown Says:
September 5th, 2007 at 10:27 am
My wife says I’m a simple-minded widget. Does that help?
Greg Swann Says:
September 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am
What do you want done?
Jay Thompson Says:
September 5th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
I was gonna say “Swann”…
lani Says:
September 5th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Jeff- I said “widget,” not “tool.” just kidding

Jay- you’re psychic or something.

Greg- I don’t know what it takes to make a widget but I’m looking to create a small widget that flashes the faces of missing children. The national center for missing and exploited children has a RSS feed, so I don’t know if that helps or what I’d need to get a widget made but a minimally invasive widget that could go on anyone’s site that shows missing children.

I was at the gas station last night and saw a missing child flyer. I wished I could have it on my website. Maybe everyone can? I don’t even know if this is complicated…
Greg Swann Says:
September 5th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
What you want is not hard. The children are victims of nothing but divorce lawyers, but the actual programming job is easy: Pull the feed once a day, build an array of pix with contact info from the linked records, serve ‘em up at random on demand. Very simple.
lani Says:
September 5th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
You’re speaking Latin again Is there a site that would help me build a widget? Sorry for my insane learning curve here!
Greg Swann Says:
September 5th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
> Is there a site that would help me build a widget?

I don’t think so. You need to parse the XML to get the URLs of the individual records, then parse them to get the code you want to display. You want a developer. The ideal developer works for the missing kids site.
lani Says:
September 5th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Fantastic- thank you Greg!!
DB Says:
September 6th, 2007 at 3:32 am
What was the url to the site that did the MLS photos. Edit that mess to the child’s pics and the junk at the bottom to the contact.

There is a flickr widget somewhere that you can do random photos with too. Maybe you can take the flickr link off the bottom and instead of each individual contact for each child, make it to thje center for national exploriated children or whatever that place is called.
lani Says:
September 6th, 2007 at 3:47 am
Great advice, I’ll have to look into that Thanks DB!
Chris Lengquist Says:
September 6th, 2007 at 7:07 am
Why do you want a midget?
lani Says:
September 6th, 2007 at 7:19 am
Oh Chris…

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