Embedding is Now Enabled
Embedding is now enabled on Listphile. What this means is that any list, atlas or database on Listphile can now be embedded on any website. This is really cool because it greatly expands your reach when you create a list.
Imagine spending the time to put together the beginnings of a helpful resource, and then let people share and distribute it across the web by inserting it into their sites. Everyone still comes back to a central place to made adds and edits (Listphile), but suddenly your list is portable and has a very wide potential reach. This will encourage collaboration, and get your list/atlas/database under more peoples’ noses. Here’s the Open Surf Atlas:
It’s a pretty simple affair: in the right margin of the main page for every list on Listphile, you will see an area that contains the embed code. It’s just like YouTube. Grab the code snippet, and paste it into your blog or website.
One big caveat: this will not work on blogs that are hosted on someone else’s server (i.e. listphile.wordpress.com, blogname.blogger.com, blogname.blogspot.com, etc.) because these hosted blog sites sanitize this kind of code. If you control your server, however, or have your own website, this should not be an issue.
This first release is pretty cool, however we hope to add lots of helpful controls that will allow you to change height, width, colors, font sizes and colors, layout, etc. For now, the embedded list will display as map, list or thumbnails depending on the default setting for that list. And if you feel like peeking under the hood, you can actually control a lot more by tinkering with the parameters in the embed code (height, width, rows, border). Enjoy, and as always, please send us feedback.