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the power of Furl
Date: 07/22/05 (WebDesign) Keywords: browser, css, web
I'd like to go over a new site content management system I've developed with the help of Furl
A bit of explanation of what Furl is and how it works
Furl is a server-side bookmark manager, similiar to that of del.icio.us or any other number of similar tools. These sites work by assigning you a bookmarklet that you place in your browser toolbar. In the example of Furl, everytime you come across a site which you find interesting and would normally bookmark via your browser's bookmarking function, you instead click on the Furl bookmarklet. You are then taken to an area of the Furl website which saves the interesting website you wanted to bookmark on the Furl server. To access all of these "furled" sites you've saved, you just need to go to furl.net and log in with your username and password. You will be taken to your ever expanding archive of websites that you've furled. I've been using Furl for a while now and have 572 things saved at the moment. One other thing to mention is that during the setup of your Furl account, you can select options to have your list of furled websites be viewable by other members of furl, which I will touch on later.Now for the cool things you can do with Furl
When furling websites, you can organize everything by topic. So far, I mainly use two topics: default and useful. You can add new topics on the fly as well.
On unhappymeal.net you are basically looking at the topics I mentioned earlier. The Furl website has instructions for adding code to your own website which will generate a list of your furled items. You just specify which topics you would like to display, formatting such as date and comments, and how many items are displayed at once. Furl spits out the code you will need, and you can just paste it into the code of your website. You can even use CSS to style the formatting of the furled items.
I've made topics such as "halloween" and "easter" as well, which are not displayed on unhappymeal.net at the moment, but with only a few code changes I can display them at the right time of the year.
I find that creating a website with my furled items to be far more satisfying than if I had just made my furled items public. You would have to look at the list of websites I've furled on the furl website itself along with it's own formatting otherwise. I guess it's partially about control, and partially that I'm constantly finding new stuff at a rate which would warrant a website to display all the content.
Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/935575.html
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