The first script is a modification of the ESC database/shopping cart. You see, the great thing about this shopping cart is that it is so completely flexible and customizable— it can be used with any column names, and the data actually comes from Google Docs. You simply create a spreadsheet in Google Docs, fill in the fields, and viola! A searchable database is created on your site…. editable anytime through Google Docs.

So I made their baseball game schedule a spreadsheet on Google Docs, and now ESC shows that schedule dynamically on their site. You can click on any team name to see all the dates and times that team is playing.

I also wrote a little short script which calculates the standings of the teams automatically based on how many wins each team has had.

The other script I wrote is really cool: it’s a “Meeting-Minutes” application. It shows all the minutes from all meetings as a list by date down the right side. Clicking on a date will display those minutes in a browser… it’s also instantly searchable, so you can quickly find the results of a decision from years ago.

At some point in the next day or two I’ll put the Meeting-Minutes script up for sale on Intelliscript.net. I’ll likely sell if for $10.00. If you want it, and don’t see it there, shoot me an email and I’ll hook you up.

~Jason

Facebook has a few good feeds, but I’ve always been annoyed that when new posts were made to groups I own, I wouldn’t be alerted in anyway. So I created a new feed today which includes new wall posts, posted items, photos, and more.

So now I can subscribe to the groups I make or are interested in, to stay up-to-date with what’s going on in a quick, easy way.

Here’s the Jason Silver group:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=2BfvU7FG3RGOhGLpCB2yXQ&_render=rss&groupid=2235436692

And here’s the Pipe:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/jasonsilver/facebookgroup

Just enter in your group numeric ID.

~Jason

The way most search engines work now, is to rate how important your page is by how many people are linking to it. It’s called site “popularity.”

The best way to start getting higher in the search engines for your topic, is to comment on lots of other similarly themed sites, with the hope that they will, in response to your comment, find your content and link to it because of it’s intrinsic value.

There are all kinds of ways to get links back to you by devious means, but they tend to have either short-lived, or harmful effects. Search engines recognize these sorts of links as being a type of spam— you can possibly have your site blocked by search engines.

My trick? I subscribe to custom search engine RSS feeds for various keywords, so that when posts and articles are made anywhere on the Internet about these keywords, I can go and leave a comment. Often comment boxes will allow you to leave a URL, and so always leave yours when you respond.

By doing this, a link from sites relating to your keywords will be pointing back to you, and if your comment is informative, actual visitors might follow your link when they read your comment.

Just remember: don’t make your comment look spammy, or advertisement based at all.

For marketing on the Internet, location, location, location is better said as “Content, content, content.”

Hope this helps!
Jason Silver

~Jason

Here are some features:

1. Automatic installation: just drop it in the cgi-bin, and open it in a browser. It creates all the subfolders it needs, and warns you if there is anything wrong.
2. One page editing: Confirmations for creating new pages, deleting pages, and editing messages all appear in an iframe, so no need to press back on your browser.
3. Template control: the script can now be completely style-sheet based, so you may change the look of your entire site by clicking on a thumbnail. Upload as many templates as you want. Or use this for giving your customers their own sites, which they can customize completely.
4. Button and Menu Customization: When you create a new page, you can now opt to include it in the menu along the top or on the sides of the content. Give menus their own title, change the sort order of the menu, or remove pages from the menu. Complete control!
5. Instantly change the type of button in the menu. Using style sheets, your buttons can be mouseover image changes, plain text, cascading menus, and more!
6. Login Memory: login once, and stay logged in until you log out. No more entering passwords every time you perform an action.
7. You can still put an edit link at the bottom of every page on your site. Clicking it will take you to the edit view.
8. Customize the header and footer of your site from the one edit page.
9. Turn off controls by disabling delete, new pages, changing templates, modifying the button-menu, and more.
10. The header of the edit script display can be customized for your own company.
11. The edit script display has a side banner for displaying ads to your customers while they’re logged in. You can change the image in the ad, and the address of the link they click remotely.
12. The edit script display is based on a CSS file. Host the CSS file on your own server, so that your customers see the ads and banners you want them to see.

As you can see, this is a very powerful, easy-to-use script. I’m adding new features, and improving install-ability every day.

If you’re interested, get it now at Intelliscript.net. When the script is released, existing users will get it for free. New users will have to pay a higher price for this script, so now is the time to get in on the deal.

~Jason