This IntelliTec Medical Institute site was put together on a pretty quick timeline. This site was built using ASP technology (existing site/server requirements), and features drop-down navigation, a blog integration, contact forms, RSS parsing and a custom design (thanks to Joe Hagen at PlattForm Advertising).

IntelliTec Medical Institute specializes in career-focused training in the health care industry.

Design: Joe Hagen - Web Designer at PlattForm
Development: Jamon Abercrombie
Client (PlattForm): IntelliTec Medical Institute

So we tackled this issue in PHP a few posts back, but now it’s time to look for something that ASP sites can use in a similar fashion.

This is really simple to use, modify and customize. Find a valid feed URL that you want to use, place it where it says to, follow the instructions that are provided in the comments, modify how you want each item parsed out, upload it and you’re pretty much done.

1. Get the Simple ASP RSS Parser code. Copy the entire block and place it where you want the feed to parse out on your “.asp” file
2. Get the XSL template - copy, paste and save as “news.xsl“
3. Modify the XSL file to match your site structure, and zippidy-do-dah, there you go

Let us know if you have questions or comments. There are ways to customize this and modify it to do just about whatever you need. This is definitely not a cookie-cutter script that can only be used one way. There are countless ways to implement this thing. If you want to use it, but aren’t sure … ask. We’ll be happy to help.

Have you been wanting a simple text rotation script where on every page load the given text is selected randomly? Do you want to keep the “spiderability” (SEO value) of the text - unlike javascript rotators?

Look no further as your question has been answered. Enter - Easy Rotator.

<?php
$aText = array(
1 => ‘<h1>random header 1</h1> <p>random text 1</p>’,
2 => ‘<ul><li>random list 1</li></ul>’,
3 => ‘whatever you want to put here’);

echo $aText[rand(1, $iNumText)];
?>


In each array you can put nearly whatever you want. Create entire blocks of elements, rotate a single word, rotate an entire page of content, rotate headers, etc. See it in action.

It’s as simple as putting this script wherever you want something rotated, and then modify each array item with the (x)HTML or text or images you want rotated. Feel free to contact us with any questions.

Code: See it in action
Added benefit: It will keep the “spiderability” (SEO value) of the text - unlike javascript rotators

Need to rotate some images on a page? Want to call a script from your CSS to randomly rotate background images? This sucker can do it all … as long as you’re running PHP, anyway. This script will load an image at random from a certain directory (all images from the same directory as the script is located) each time the page is loaded/refreshed.

rotator script (will open in new window)

Wanna know? Here we go:

1. Click on the link above. This will open the script as a text file in a new window.
2. Copy and paste the script in your favorite HTML or text editor, and save as rotator.php
3. Place the rotator.php file in the same directory as the images you want to rotate … ONLY THOSE IMAGES you want to rotate can be in the directory. Keep in mind the script will use any image it finds in its directory.
4. make a call to the file just as you would any other image:
   • On-page images: <img src="http://www.yoursiteurl.com/images/rotate.php" alt="" />
   • CSS background: background:url(http://www.yoursiteurl.com/images/rotate.php) no-repeat bottom center; (or whatever positioning styles you need)
5. Follow any other instructions that may be in the comments of the script, and you should be good to go.

It’s really pretty simple to use. You can even have this script in multiple directories with images used for various elements, and have tons of things rotating on your page(s) … though that may not be advisable for usability reasons - try to keep it simple.

Questions? Comments.

Source: Automatic Labs
Kudos: Dan Benjamin
Also featured on: A List Apart

First introduced to the world in 2003, Suckerfish is a handy-dandy, CSS-based dropdown (or out) for list items - and it has just a tiny bit of javascript to include (11 lines is all).

Not that this is the only CSS dropdown script, or the newest, or the greatest - this is simply the one that we’ve used the most (since discovering in mid-2004). It has been kind to us, so we’ll be kind enough to point others in their direction.

Name: Suckerfish dropdown
Source: A List Apart, HTMLDog
Kudos: Patrick Griffiths, Dan Webb

You’ve found some parsers out there, but they seem too complicated?

The solution is here (it’s actually a solution that’s been around for a few years, now), and was developed, modified and jimmied around by Tim Baxter and Jamon Abercrombie as a way to parse MULTIPLE feeds through a single, simple script.

This is really simple to use, modify and customize. Find a valid feed URL that you want to use, place it where it says to, follow the instructions that are provided in the comments, modify how you want each item parsed out, upload it and you’re pretty much done.

See the Simple PHP RSS Parser in action (generic, but in action nonetheless).
Get the code (.txt) - copy, paste and save into/as a PHP file.

Let us know if you have questions or comments. There are ways to customize this and modify it to do just about whatever you need. It is in use on at least 15 sites (that we know of), and has been customized to various levels on each one. This is definitely not a cookie-cutter script that can only be used one way. There are countless ways to implement this thing. If you want to use it, but aren’t sure … ask. We’ll be happy to help.