Mixalia: My first web project
Every day new web applications are released aiming to make our lives easier, which is something you can actually see by yourself by reading any of the thousands of blogs and websites that discuss, review and create buzz around them.
As a person who enjoys reading sites like Mashable, Lifehacker or Downloadsquad, I always wondered about the possibility of making my own web application. Many of them are astonishingly complex, while others are quite simple… still I had no idea about what to do, until I stumbled upon PopUrls some time ago.
PopUrls is a well known mashup of the most popular social news websites, showing the headlines of those sites in a single page. The concept is fairly simple since it just shows part of the content from the RSS feeds that each site publishes, so I started to work on a similar website on my free time.
After a few weeks, Mixalia was finally ready. It’s in Spanish and the content focus is kind of different than in PopUrls, since it also fetches headlines from websites in several topics like general news, sports news, videogames, science, TV & entertainment, etc. On the other hand, this one is simpler than PopUrls since it lacks the interface customization options. The backend was made with the Simplepie PHP script, which makes the feed parsing job a piece of cake.
It may not look or feel like a Web 2.0 site, but some well known websites in Spanish have already wrote about it, driving some loyal traffic to the website.
Wow that looks good! The layout is astonishing too! Shame it is in Spanish, but I like it. Well done!
Thanks for the kudos Philip!. I’m glad you liked it.
Very impressive! It looks very professional. Are you going to share details on how you did it?
Thanks Mike. Simplepie has all the functionality ready to be implemented, but how you style and show the information is up to you.
Newer versions of Simplepie come with plenty of example pages, making use of some of the many available parameters and options available to choose from.
Go get the script and take a look! – Hope this helps, have a good day.
Wow! I’m amazed… most amazed.
You have done a really interesting job with your sites (both your personal blog and Mixalia). They look very profesional and I think that are very eye-catching.
Keep it up!
BTW; if you need assistance on anything, just ask! I’m enjoying what I have left of free time before starting with work and stuff.
Woah, Mixalia looks really good dude… congrats!