Straight to the Bar

All Things Strength

HELPING YOU GET STRONGER SINCE 2004

Site Update : What Does What

Recently I’ve incorporated several new features into the Straight to the Bar site, some of which are listed below. Also noted are a couple of older features that seem to generate a few questions. Icon beside header line in Workout entries This little guy...

KeepVid

A simple way to download videos from many of the larger video storage sites (Google Video, YouTube, Putfile etc): keepvid.com.

Improving Rebuild Times

Over the past few weeks, rebuild times for this site have gradually ground to a near-standstill. This is particularly noticeable when leaving a comment – it’s some time before the page reloads with the updated text displayed. Not good at all. In searching...
Publishing RSS Feeds

Publishing RSS Feeds

What is RSS? RSS is an acronym for Rich Site Summary, an XML format which is widely use for publishing data around the web. RSS feeds enable a site to be viewed through News Readers (also known as ‘aggregators’); which are often a lot simpler than web...