Posted by Museum-Tracker 3 years 45 weeks ago
Museum-Tracker
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I would like to be able to present an on-this-day feature for users of the mobile web - displaying the information for 'todays' date each day. At present I'm doing this using static HTML pages uploaded each day - not very practical.
You can see what I'm seeking to do at -
http://www.museum-tracker.com/mobile/
Click on Today's Creators.
I need suggestions on probably some simple database system to accomplish this. Can members suggest anything suitable that will work with mobile phone browsers?
(My technical skills: proficient HTML, but not a programmer.)
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
David Berghouse
Author: Museum-Tracker
Posted by DTorrence 3 years ago
I searched head-to-toe on the site and didn't see anything called "Today's Creators" =(
What you're trying to accomplish will require some programming skills. You'll need to set up your own database. I'm not sure if there's a database freely available out there for you, but it's possible that there may be a webservice.
In order to accomplish this, you would need some server-side scripting, such as ASP/ASP.NET, PHP, JSP, etc... If you could find a large text file, you could even get JavaScript to read for you. JavaScript wouldn't be a practical approach, since it's not supported by many mobile browsers.
I guess the unfortunate bottom line is that it's going to be extremely difficult to do this in just HTML. Maybe somebody else has a suggestion, but I can't seem to think of anything too helpful =(
Best of luck!
~Derek Torrence
~Derek TorrenceMCP / MSBC
Posted by Trustdesa 2 years ago
If you use rss isn't more easy???