Engage Interactive Blog

To celebrate the opening of our brand new labs section we thought we’d share with you our little widget to display your Last.FM tracks on your website using jQuery.

Last.FM has a very extensive API, many applications use it, but whilst scouring the web the other day looking for a simple jQuery implementation we just couldn’t find one that was lightweight and easily customisable. So we thought we’d write our own plug-in!

Using Json, the plug-in grabs data from the API and then – in a structure you define – places it on your website. The styling and layout is left completely up to you!

Let us know what you think, or ask any questions you may have in the comments bellow.

Well, we did promise we’d get around to a tutorial eventually, so here you have it! The Engage Interactive school for all things internet proudly presents: How to build a website with orientation specific content especially for the iPhone!

This tutorial will cover the basic setup and creation of a web page for the iPhone that will detect and change the content based on the phones orientation. You will need some way of viewing your files on the iPhone or you wont see the fruits of your labour. We’d suggest uploading it to a location on the web and browsing to it on the phone. Other than that everything else can be done with any old text editor. Anyway, enough chat – Onward to the tutorial!

UPDATE:
I completely forgot to mention how to detect the iPhone on your normal website and send it to your iPhone version. I’ve added the script here.

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