Tools for Route 66 webmasters.
Route 66 Newsfeed
The Route 66 newsfeed is available for webmasters wishing to integrate a Route 66 news on their website without the effort updating the data on a day-to-day basis. The feed is available as either an RSS feed or a IFRAME. The RSS feed is located at http://www.historic66.com/rss.xml and can be parsed by any RSS 2.0 compliant tool. Please note that RSS is an XML file that's supposed to be parsed by a tool, not displayed directly in a web browser.
The IFRAME allows full control of size and looks by including simple html.
This is the basic code:
Feel free to change the width and height to fit you website's layout.
To change to look and feel of the newsfeed, you can download the css the default css file from http://www.historic66.com/css/rss-html.css. Save that file on your site and change what you need to be modified.
Specifying the css file you want to use is done like this:
Feel free to change colors, borders, font, ... to fit in with your site but please do leave the copyright in place.
In order to limit the lenght of the information that is returned, you can use the count argument. It indicates the maximum number of news items returned.
subBrown
The brown buttons derived from the phpBB subSilver style are available for download, carefully read the LICENSE, esp. if you plan to use them not on phpBB products.
DMOZ links
Maintaining links to other Route 66 website is a chore. This site offers an easy way to have the relevant DMOZ category for Route 66 as a continously updated source for links.
If you can include remote file, include http://www.historic66.com/internet/links.body and you;re set, if you cannot, pleasse contact us.
Preserving web sites dedicated to Route 66
If you own a web site in danger of going off-line with unique Route 66 content on it, please let me know. I'll try to saveguard the content if possible. This is an open offer without any bad intent, it's just an effort not to loose interesting sites.