A few weeks ago, I posted that I wanted to redesign my blog and add a sorted blog roll. Well, Daniel took on the challenge and hooked me up with what I was looking for.

If you ever go to my blog site, which I know a lot of you do not visit the actual site because you subscribe in a feed reader, you will see that I have redesigned the layout. It is not a finished product, but it's on its way. I wouldn't try clicking on any links because they probably will not work, but you can at least get a feel for what it looks like.

In the knew design, I have a blog roll on the right hand side. Currently, I am only listing Visio Dei bloggers. Soon, I plan to add list with the other blogs I read.

The dynamic blog roll that Daniel created has a few features:

1. It is sorted chronologically. The person that has posted most recently will be listed at the top followed by the next most recent, and so on.


2. It has a posting date threshold. If you have not posted in the last month, you will not be listed on my blog roll. A month seemed a little harsh, but that's how Daniel designed it. So, that's what I am going with. So, don't fade into blogger oblivian <cough>Jeff</cough> or I'll lose you.

At it's core, the blog roll is an AJAX call to a PHP script that takes the feed from a Google Reader shared tag and runs it through a Yahoo! Pipe and then displays the results, I think. You'll have to ask Daniel if you want the nitty-gritty.

Anyways, thanks a lot Daniel.

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