DIY Badges

May 10th, 2007

We've had a couple of requests for a flash-based badge or a badge, which aggregates all the campaigns of a member into one super badge. To help this effort we've rewritten the campaign pages to display a variety of different file formats. For example take the campaign for RAM as an example:


http://pledgie.com/campaigns/3

Using our new friendly formats you can now covert the campaign easily into a variety of formats.

  http://pledgie.com/campaigns/3      // Produces HTML
  http://pledgie.com/campaigns/3.xml  // Produces XML
  http://pledgie.com/campaigns/3.rss  // Produces RSS Feed
  http://pledgie.com/campaigns/3.png  // Produces PNG Badge

For people wanting to roll their own badge the XML version of the campaign would be a great place to start. Flash digests XML in a fairly straight-forward way and I don't think it would take much to produce a flash badge, which would use the XML rendering of the campaign to create a truly interactive badge for the campaign.

We will be playing with our one widget tool-kit, which we'll pass along as soon as its ready to anyone who is interested, in the meantime if any of you flash gurus want to take a crack and a Pledgie flash badge be my guest :-)

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