[Web4lib] del.icio.us for use in libraries links... search del.icio.us by username?

[robin na]

Hi all,
A few weeks ago I posted a request for help in styling a dropdown menu for del.icio.us links which are being pulled into a library's departmental html page. Thank you for the feedback on styling. If you are currently using del.icio.us to manage a library's links I would love to see what you have done. :-)

What I'm looking for now:
A means to search (beyond tag cloud) my dept.'s del.icio.us links from within our html webpage. I've tried google search via our del.icio.us RSS pages, but I am not having much success.  Someone suggested that it might have to do with the dynamic nature of del.icio.us links. Does anyone know of a script/widget  to put a search del.icio.us box on a website? I've read mention of a javascript, but I can't seem to actually find an example of it on the 'net.

My working example (minus a working search and a more integrated color scheme!) is http://www.libs.uga.edu/catalog/links.html 

The background:
My dept. has 200+ links. We are currently deciding if we want to have linked multiple html pages (one for each large category) or one page with scrollable divs. I've created the links page with scrollable divs as a working example. Regardless of which direction my group will want to go in, we will need searching across all of our links in del.icio.us. 

The links page does need to stay in html in order to fit with the larger website. I also need to do a few tweaks to one style sheet so that it doesn't interfere with the Librarie's larger sheet (hence, the funky color scheme). 

Thanks greatly,
Robin

robin na <georgiawebgurl at yahoo.com> wrote: Hi all, 
I have migrated a somewhat extensive internal library links list to del.icio.us. The goal is to pull all of the links (200+ and listed multiple times) into a webpage template so that I can control the presentation of the links. I've created a css collapsible multi-level menu to provide a structure that is similiar to the existing anchor/target list (and of course, added a lovely tag cloud as another access point.) 

So, everything looks good, until I started populating each of the categories in the menu with more links... and I discovered a snag after about 8 links. It seems impossible to view each complete group of links through scrolling (the menu collapses/closes early). If I continue down this path, I'm thinking that I will need to break these up into individual menus. 

Any idea on a better way of doing this? For those of you who've incorporated del.icio.us links into webpages, how did you style your links?

 I have 5 main categories and 200+ links. My menu works perfectly with a small display (less than 8 or so links).

Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated. I'll be glad to share the page if I can ever get it working properly. ;-)
Thanks,
Robin

 
       
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