We
offer a free syndication service which allows you to
use our top three headlines anywhere on your site. For
more customised solutions please contact peter@tax-news.com
or see the solutions
page.
Installation
Instructions
Code
FAQ
(Frequently Asked Questions)
Display
Examples
Optional
Variables (advanced)
INSTALLATION
INTRUCTIONS
1. Copy the code from the
form field immediately following these instructions.
2. Open the web page where you want our headlines to
appear in an html editor (eg. Notepad, Frontpage, Dreamweaver
or similar).
3. Paste the line of code into the source code at the
point you wish our headlines to appear.
4. Update the live version of the page on your web server
with the new page.
5. Open the page in your browser - our headlines will
appear automatically in the page.
CODE
The
code with default parameters is displayed in the form
field below. To learn how to modify the default parameters
see Optional Variables below.
FAQ
(Frequently Asked Questions)
What
do I get with the free service?
Our
top three news stories (updated daily). You can place
them anywhere on your site and in as many places as
you like. Once you've installed the very simple code
the stories will update automatically whenever there's
an update with no intervention required from you.
Can
I style the content?
The
stories are displayed with a generic style designed
to fit in easily with any existing design scheme. You
can create a format for the stories using an html editor
- see some examples of possible formats in the Display
Examples section below. You can also change individual
parameters in the code, or add a style of your own to
the stories: see the section below on Optional
Variables.
Do
tax-news.com offer technical support for this service?
We
might be able to help you with quick simple queries
- just e-mail to stella@lowtax.net
with rss in the subject line - but for advanced customisation
you might need to opt for one of our premium content
solutions which can be tailored to your exact requirements
- e-mail peter@lowtax.net
or
see content solutions
for further details of the options that are available.
Can
this code stop my site from loading?
No;
it is one line of javascript. If our servers are down
(we had 99.97% uptime last year) when the call for our
content comes then your page will still load and our
content will simply be missing.
DISPLAY EXAMPLES
Our
content feed is free-flowing text. This has the benefit
of allowing it to fit into any space and allows you
to use it however you please without unnecessary restrictions
on the dimensions. Also since there are no images or
more complex html it loads very quickly. However, you
can create frames (boxes or tables) to use the same
code; you can see in the three examples below how the
content stretches to a full width or to any dimension
you specify (for instance in a table cell).
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OPTIONAL
VARIABLES
Modifying
the length of teasers
Modify the query string
to include the following variable which should equal
the number of characters you wish to display:
&rss_css=1000
Modifying
the target window of links
Modify the query string
to include the following variable which should equal
the target of the links (either a custom name or something
like '_top' or '_parent':
&rss_target=_top
Modifying
the number of headlines
Modify the query string
to include the following variable which should equal
the number of headlines you wish to display (between
1 and 3):
&rss_items=3
Modifying the style elements
Modify the query string
to include the following:
&rss_css=REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_FULL_STYLE_SHEET_URL
Then you need to modify
your document to apply a style to the headlines that
are being called in. This can be done using a css stylesheet.
Simply insert your full style-sheet url in the query
string segment above.
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