Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:46:54 pm
Here’s an open thread for anything at all on a Friday night, with a note to let all LGF Pages authors know that there’s been a change to the LGF Pages bookmarklet to fix a small problem, so you should delete your current bookmarklet and reinstall the new one. The new ...

Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:38:32 pm
Today we're unveiling a brand new tagging system for your LGF Pages, making it much easier to create new tags and reuse previously created tags with a personalized autocompletion feature. The LGF Pages posting bookmarklet now uses your personal "tag library" (all the tags you've ever used for your Pages) to ...

Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:59:07 pm
The bookmarklet that lets registered LGF users post LGF Pages has been updated, to provide better support for automatically grabbing selected text from a web page in Internet Explorer. Here's the new version of the bookmarklet: LGF Pages Bookmarklet To install this in Safari, Chrome, or Firefox, you can just drag the link ...

Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:34:18 pm
There are some new features in LGF Pages, our simple but powerful blogging system for registered users: 1) Pages now have all the same sharing tools as LGF front page articles; a Facebook Like button, a Google +1 button, a retweet button for Twitter, and a "Share" button that pops up ...

Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:40:20 pm
Here's one of those tech notes that usually turns into an open thread, with some information that might be useful to other website monkeys. While testing the Facebook Like button I noticed that there seems to be a latency problem somewhere in the mammoth Facebook hivemind. If the button is ...

Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:47:17 pm
LGF Pages continues to evolve: the new feature of the day is the ability to embed videos in your Pages from any video website (instead of being limited to YouTube, Vimeo, Liveleak, and Google). To make this work, there's a new button in the LGF Pages bookmarklet that looks something like ...

Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:39:39 pm
LGF Pages has quietly transmogrified into a full-featured blogging tool, with embedded videos and images, text formatting, “shadowbox” image popups, auto-linking, and more! If you have an LGF account, you now have your own blog with its own LGF URL. The address of your LGF Page is: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/p ages/username (Replace “username” with your registered ...

Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:28:40 pm
The new LGF feature of the day is visible in the right sidebar: “Featured Pages!” These are LGF Pages posted by registered users, selected to appear on the front page by our crack staff. How do you get your page to show up in “Featured Pages?” Well, the best way is ...

Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:25:44 pm
Yeesh. When you’re moving text around among browsers and Javascript and PHP and MySQL, and when that text is coming from outside sources (copied and pasted from web pages by LGF users), sometimes the character encoding and translation issues can become … intense. Yes, I’m coding away at LGF Linkage ...

Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:18:30 pm
Our new LGF Linkage page has been enhanced yet again, with the easiest possible embedded video — just post a link to a video’s page at YouTube or Vimeo, and it will automatically be displayed as an embedded, playable video in your Linkage post. Couldn’t be easier. Another enhancement: the Filter ...

Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 1:58:16 pm
Today I’m unveiling the new Little Green Footballs Linkage page, redesigned and enhanced, with new features that make it very simple to post links from any site. We’ve had “spinoff links” for a while now; this is an extension of that feature. Without further ado, here’s the new page: LGF Linkage. ...