I am building my own version of thewikigame.com. It is based on the concept of Wikiracing. On the website, the developer embeds the Wikipedia pages into his own website, and tracks how many clicks the user makes to reach the target page. I am not sure how he did this. What would be the best way possible to get the HTML + styling to display these pages on my own website?
As I understand from your question, you need first to download the whole content of enwiki to your website. And to do this you have to download the dump XML for English Wikipedia from this mirror, then import that XML to your wiki using one of these methods.
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http://juniorgoldreport.com/ - is the website I'm trying to create an RSS feed for and SEO better.
https://feedity.com/ - is what I'm using to see if I can create the feed, and then ultimately create an app.
A decent amount of my front page content is built via plugin that organize my post's making the maintenance of the website much easier for me, and allowing my employer to post content with ease as well.
Taking a look at the feed, it seems that the website cannot see anything.
From my understanding these post's are being displayed via a proper HTML format, the have h1 tags and proper div blocks and classes.
Do you guys have any suggestions as to how I should I could go about creating a proper feed? Is this a common issue within wordpress?
I'm currently building another website from scratch with a custom CMS (not via wordpress)
What are you suggestions?
RSS feeds are built into Wordpress. Take a look at this page from the Codex about feeds and how to access them.
As a primer you use http://juniorgoldreport.com/feed/ and get the RSS. If you want to access a specific category you'd use http://juniorgoldreport.com/category/[categoryslug]/feed. You can do the same thing with tags.
As for a non Wordpress site I can't say what the best way would be. There are many options.
Are iframes still widely in use today?
I am coding a site with divs, and I want everything to appear in the container div. Is it possible to do it without coding the header + nav into each page and have the content show at the exact same spot without using iframes?
I did a quick Google search and found a post that said it's not possible, but my site will have quite a bit of links.
As of right now, I am coding it with Tumblr, and the hashtags in the posts would act as links to a section of posts (Ex: #blog would retrieve every post under the "blog" link). What are some widely used ways to target links on a website?
If you are creating a multi-page website, it would be helpful to have the HTML content be generated dynamically or be built statically from template files. You don't want to manually update the same content across multiple HTML files.
Dynamic Pages
There are several options for dynamically generating HTML content depending on the software available to you. For example, PHP is a popular language for web development and is available through many web hosts.
Static Pages
It is possible to build static HTML documents from templates using something like Jekyll.
I'm not sure if I'm interpreting what you mean by "coding it with Tumblr" correctly or not, but I think you mean you're making a Tumblr site with their built-in HTML editing capability.
I think you'll have a very difficult time achieving the behavior you desire there. I think you're trying to create something resembling a single-page application. Tumblr probably just allows basic static HTML with little Javascript. The suggestion Kyle made about using PHP or something like that won't work because that code must be executed on a server, and Tumblr doesn't provide that capability to my knowledge.
If you really want this kind of functionality, you probably should get some paid web hosting and develop your web development skills. It's not a simple task, but it's fun!
Sorry if I underestimated you or anything. Just trying to read between the lines. It seems to me that you may be relatively new to web development given the content of your post, and I'm trying to nudge you in the right direction constructively.
This is more a theoretical question than a coding question. I am trying to create a epub, with some interactive components. Now to separate the code, I put each interactive component in a separate html file. Typical interactive components will be a questionnaire.
What will be the best way to link this to my epub, two options I am considering are:
Iframe - the interactive component will display as a part of the book, and users will seamlessly complete the activity.
External link - an Icon will be displayed in the book, which will serve as a link to a new page, this page will contain the interactive component.
I would like to keep the epub according to epub 3.0 standard.
Any suggestions or alternative solutions I can research?
Either approach is compatible with the standard since external links are allowed and scripting within an iFrame is also allowed (known as scripting in a container).
The broader question is what are you trying to achieve? If the user is sent to an external page in a browser then the browser will have to post the results back to some server since the browser can't write the results back to disk or the EPUB.
It also depends on whether the EPUB Reading System is browser-based itself or an app. It is an app then in theory the app might know how to log info locally (though that would require jumping through some hoops that could have security implications.
So what is the goal here?
I'm creating a web site for an institute, since I'm new to this field I want to know whether I can create a page for header part(which containing the logo and the name of the institute) and can I combine that page to each and every page I'm creating. If it is possible suggest me how can I combine the header part & newly created page..
Surprisingly, there is no way to do that in straight HTML. Not even in HTML5.
If you are only creating a few pages, I suggest simply copy-pasting the content to each page's HTML file. Admittedly, that approach can quickly become a burden.
Some web servers will parse the HTML of a page before it is served out, look for a specific kind of HTML comment, and then interpret that as a command to insert the contents of another file. This feature is called "server-side includes" or "SSI". Some web servers, such as Apache Tomcat, have this feature but turn it off by default due to security concerns.
If you are building dynamic pages where the HTML content being served is created on-the-fly with a programming language rather than read from pre-created disk files, then you can definitely include fragments of HTML using that programming language.
I suggest you do some additional study to build up your web authoring skills. One great source of training is the book "Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML" from O'Reilly Media, Inc.
You can do pull html code from different places and merge them with php. It's been years since I've done it, so I can't get into the particulars.
Hello fellow programmers,
I am building a website and i read about sitemap.xml, but there is no place where i can find a definition or what it contains.
Can someone help me, what does it do? what is it for? what is in it?
http://www.sitemaps.org/ is the official resource.
The protocol page is probably the most important part of the entire site. It describes how to properly format your sitemap.xml file so that search engines can properly crawl your website.
from sitemaps.org
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.
It provides information for search engines about the structure of your site. Wikipedia article.
It's an XML file that contains all of the URLs in your application, along with some other information that is used to make your site easier to crawl for search engines.