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

[Havens,Andy]

Lots of good links here:

http://www.econsultant.com/delicious-by-function/index.html

Perhaps something in that list will help... 



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Andy Havens
OCLC: Manager, Branding and Creative Services

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of robin na
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 8:36 AM
To: web4lib
Subject: [Web4lib] del.icio.us for use in libraries links...
searchdel.icio.us by username?

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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