The home page for s l a m now displays activeRenderer News' rss feed in its left side bar, thanks to the new rssBox macro.

I modified the #homeTemplate.txt template in my copy of Radio's www folder to include the following line in the leftSide DIV

<%rssBox ("file:///Data/Marc/Radio%20UserLand/www/categories/activerenderer/rss.xml", "activeRenderer News")%>

The first parameter is the location of the rss feed's file on my Mac Powerbook. I could have supplied http://www.activerenderer.com/rss.xml instead.

The second parameter is the title displayed in the box. For more information on rssBox parameters, check activeRenderer's macros reference.

I admit modifying templates, inserting macros and CSS rules may be a little too much on the geek side for the regular Radio blogger. Yet, help is on the way: Gwénaël Le Dréan, who is already leading the activeRenderer localisation project, is working on friendly wizards to help users generate the proper CSS and Usertalk syntax, while viewing the result as they make modifications. I can't wait to translate the wizards into English