Adding Christmas Pics to Your Home Page
December 24th, 2007
Instead of the name of a hyperlink, I discovered it's possible to swap in the HTML code for the location of images that are somewhere else on the web. So instead of "The New York Times," I gave my favorite the name
and my home page displayed the picture!
And then the fun began. It turns out that even animated pictures can be displayed on a Xerpi favorites page. So I scrambled around collecting an assortment of my favorite animated pictures -- like the dancing hamsters, and the jumping banana... Soon I had a glorious hodgepodge of strange internet images, which I'm sharing here as a public view.
Think you can do better? I think so too. But that's the great thing about Xerpi. I got the idea from the public view of Wray Mills, who's the site's official geek blogger. This gave me a warm feeling inside, because it felt like we were all part of the collaborative experiment that is Xerpi. Besides sharing our favorite links, and our favorite pictures, we're also sharing our favorite tricks for getting the most out of them!
I'm imagining where this could lead. Maybe someday there will be a crazy image war, where different editors of a public view take turns re-arranging its pictures, each one placing their own strange favorites at the top of the page.
Maybe Santa's elves could use it to argue about which picture to feature on the North Pole's Christmas card...
