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Month: December 2007

Restricting search indexing to sections of a web page

If you think about websites as having different page types, with each page type having different sections within it, such as content sections, navigation sections, and footer sections, it becomes apparent that the value of a particular page is defined by the content on the page that is unique to that page. Sections like footers…

December 21, 2007
XML file of shooting ranges in Michigan

As another small step in this process of manipulating a data set to upload to Google Maps, I took the cleaned XHTML I had from a few days ago, and used TextWrangler to do some quick search and replaces on the source code in order to produce this XML file. ranges-data.xml Next, I think, I’ll…

December 18, 2007
Sample KML structure for the shooting ranges data

And here is a sample of what the intended shooting ranges KML feed will look like.

December 16, 2007
Clean XHTML of shooting ranges data

My goal is to upload a comprehensive list of shooting ranges to Google Maps (see prior posting). So, to accomplish this, here are the steps I’ve thought of.

December 16, 2007
Map of shooting ranges in Michigan

I’m beginning to put together a Google Map of shooting ranges in Michigan. Do you know of a place to shoot that I should add? Comment with your suggestion and I’ll incorporate it. Here’s a look. View Larger Map

December 16, 2007
Wow, did John Manning and his crew help me out.

Here’s an example of one Christian brother helping out another. I have a 1998 Plymouth Neon that I thought mainly just needed an O2 sensor replaced. Last week I brought the car and the sensor to John over at Manning Equipment, and he and his mechanics took a look at it. Now, I don’t completely…

December 10, 2007

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