Frugal Hacks: Blogroll in a Scrolling Box
how to April 13th, 2008I was recently asked to help configure the burgeoning Frugal Hacks blogroll into a scrollbox. I have a thorough tutorial about how to do that here, but for ease (since most Frugal Hackers are very busy moms), I thought I’d just post the whole code right here.
<div style="height:250px; overflow:auto;">
<p class="sideheader">Frugal Blogroll</p>
<a href="http://frugalhacks.com/?page_id=65"> **join here**</a>
<script src="http://rpc.blogrolling.com/display.php?r=ae7cadbf39b863c96fca9f4c21d0d51e" language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> </script>
</div>
If you post that code into your sidebar, you will see this:
Now, the width of the scrollbox goes with the width of your sidebar. It will not be as wide in your narrower sidebar. You can change the height to be anything you want. 250px is what I like, but the font in your sidebar may be larger, and thus a longer scrollbox may be required. Experiment a little.










April 15th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
[...] Hacks lately, please do! We have guest posts and over 500 members in the Frugal Blogroll, and Mrs. Mecomber has added a scrolling box option to display the blogroll without letting it take over your entire [...]
April 18th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
[...] of showing the badge or the entire Frugal Blogroll (500 members and counting!) you can now use Mrs. Mecomber’s easy script to create a scrolling box and show just as much of the blogroll as you [...]
April 18th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
[...] of showing the badge or the entire Frugal Blogroll (500 members and counting!) you can now use Mrs. Mecomber’s easy script to create a scrolling box and show just as much of the blogroll as you [...]
April 18th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Thank you for this!
April 18th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Thanks so much for this scrolling box! The whole list was just too long, but I didn’t like having just the button up - - This new list is PERFECT!!! Thank you!!
April 18th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
I’m so glad you can use it!
April 19th, 2008 at 10:44 am
One word: phenomenal!
April 19th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Thank you!! I used this for my personal blogroll, which was taking up too much sidebar space. It was easy to substitute my own blogroll code and just change the header. You rock!
May 7th, 2008 at 1:40 am
This is terrific thanks. Adapted it for Wordless Wednesday blogroll and it works great! You are a genius.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Thank you so much! The roll was getting so long and now it is so much easier on the eyes.
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:10 pm
This is so cool! Thanks!
June 10th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
THANK YOU SO MUCH, This is so much neater and saves up so much space, hey and I believe in being frugal even in the space I use! Thank you
July 17th, 2008 at 12:30 am
I FINALLY got it to work right! Thank you SO much for your help and patience with me!!