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IceRocket Link Tracker is final, public, live and oh so cool!

by Tris Hussey at 09:34AM (PDT) on August 4, 2005 | Permanent Link |

I've been playing with IceRocket's new Link Tracker script for a couple weeks now, as you may have noticed. Yesterday it went live an final. There are two way to implement it. If you run your own server and it can run php scripts, then you can choose a local server-side option. This one should be faster and more configurable then what I'm running which is a JavaScript and iFrame version. So set up. For the way I'm doing it, it takes just a couple minutes to do.

Here are the instructions for Blogware:

First go into your Blogware admin area and click the Look & Feel tab. If you don't see a link to templates, stop. You can't do this, so you'll have to contact your reseller for help.
Go to the IceRocket link above and you're going to use the iFrame version. Click in the textbox window and the code will be auto selected. Copy this (ctrl-c).
Go to your Blogware administration control panel and go to Settings & Security, then click the General link
Scroll down until you see the "Additional <HEAD> Content section and paste the script into the box.
Find this line: var frameUrlCSS = ""; and the link to Blogware CSS is [your blog's url]/_templates/style.css. I just tried using the script parameter: {{blog.css_url}} and that doesn't seem to work. Maybe it has to be rendered in the template itself ... more experimenting!
In the iframestyle variable I made the height 1.4 em instead of 1.2 looked better on my blog, up to you.
Click Save settings at the bottom of the page (this is actually the most important part!).
Now the slightly less fun part, still easy, just a tad more geeky ... you have to edit your templates.
Click the Look & Feel tab .. click the templates link. You're going to be editing two templates: article and category. The process is the same for both.
Click the edit link on Category first. Now, if you haven't customized a template before you'll have to click the customize button. On the next screen click the "Go" button that will copy the code into a window below. This is the raw code for your Main category. Yep, it's ugly. This is HTML folks. What you're going to need to do is paste this: <div><script language=javascript>writeCitationsFrame("{{permalink_url}}");</script> into the window. I put mine right below the link to the Cosmos search.
Once you're done, click "Save and activate"
Go check your blog.
Don't worry all of this is easily un-doable. (is that even a real word?).
You'll repeat the template editing with the article template too.