What are Lemonrock gig feeds?

Gig feeds save you valuable time. When you put your gigs on Lemonrock, you know your gigs will be seen far and wide. Now, instead of re-typing all the same information into your own web site, your own web site will automatically show the gigs you have added to Lemonrock! All you have to do is make a one-off change to your site by adding a small piece of HTML to the page(s) where your gigs are listed.

 How do I know what HTML to put into my pages?

Go to your 'my gig feeds' section in your Lemonrock edit page, and copy the HTML that is created from your settings. It's that easy!

 What's in the HTML that I put into my pages?

The HTML is an inline frame (or <iframe>) which is about 400 characters (bytes) long.

 Can I specify how many gigs I show on my own site?

Yes. You specify the period you want, e.g. this month, next 2 months, remainder of this month, next gig, next 4 gigs, etc. You can also add month headings to organise your gigs by month.

 Do I have to change the HTML on my own site every time I add gigs to Lemonrock?

No - the beauty of gig feeds is that your own site will immediately show all your Lemonrock gigs without you having to change your own site!

 My gigs are arranged on my site as a table. Can the gig feed do that too?

Yes. You can format your feeds to be a simple list, or a table.

 I need big fonts that fit in with my site. Can the feed be made to look like my old manual list?

Yes. You can specify the font family, size, weight, and a host of other properties in your 'my gig feeds' section.

 I need the gig feed to have a special colour background. Can I specify that too?

Yes. Font colours and background colours can be specified.

 I just want a simple gig feed. Do I need to know HTML?

No. We've created a range of standard feed styles for every venue and every band/artist. All you have to do is copy and paste the HTML from the 'my gig feeds' section.

 Can I modify the standard styles that already exist?

Yes, you can use a standard style as your starting point, and edit some or all of it to create your own styles.

 Can I have more than one feed on my site?

Yes, you can have up to 6 different lists (e.g. next gig, this week, this month, next month, month after next, next 3 months)

 The text and background colours look fine, but the links are the wrong colour. How do I make them look like the other links on my site?

You can specify the styles for link, hover and visited if the standard colours don't suit your site. Enter your styles in the 3 boxes 'link', 'hover' and 'visited'. For example, if you set 'link' to color:#c7b1a6; text-decoration:none;, 'hover' to color:#ff0000; text-decoration:underline; and 'visited' to color:#800080; text-decoration:none;, you would get a link like this.

 Can you show me some examples?

Yes - see here »

 Can you explain what the <iframe> is?

The <iframe> tag was introduced in HTML 4.0. Think of it as an <img> tag that shows a whole HTML page instead of a picture. You can give it a specific size and can add borders and margins to the page to make it blend in with the page on your site that contains it. You can use <iframe> pretty much anywhere you can use an <img> tag, for example in a table cell, or directly in the document body. There's a good description of <iframe> here »

 I need an advanced style that matches my own site. Can you help?

If you can't create gig listings that fit in with your site's existing design, or if you don't know enough HTML, please ask us and we'll see if we can help you.

 I want to create an advanced style myself. How do I specify the components of a gig (e.g. the date, the venue, the price, etc)?

There's an explanation of how to format a gig in the 'my gig feeds' section of your edit page. These details are reproduced here for your convenience. Please note that this is for advanced gig feeds only. You don't need to know any HTML to get basic Lemonrock gig listings on your own site!

For band/artist sites:

The format of a gig is specified using a 'symbol replacement' scheme. Each of the following symbols, when found in your gig format (part of your 'my gig feeds' page), will be converted to the thing it represents:
%d	=	gig date
%v	=	venue name
%b	=	band/artist name
%a	=	venue address
%t	=	venue town or city
%c	=	venue county
%p	=	venue postcode
%e	=	venue tel no
%f	=	entrance fee (must be included if you want CANCELLED or SOLD OUT to show)
%F	=	entrance fee (must be included if you want CANCELLED or SOLD OUT to show), shows FREE if free
%h	=	gig time
%s	=	support bands/artists
%i	=	gig info from each gig
%r	=	short description from each gig
%w	=	venue's web address

For venue sites:

The format of a gig is specified using a 'symbol replacement' scheme. Each of the following symbols, when found in your gig format (part of your 'my gig feeds' page), will be converted to the thing it represents:
%d	=	gig date
%b	=	band/artist names (no genre info)
%B	=	band/artist names (with genre info)
%v	=	venue name
%t	=	venue town or city
%f	=	entrance fee (must be included if you want CANCELLED or SOLD OUT to show)
%F	=	entrance fee (must be included if you want CANCELLED or SOLD OUT to show), shows FREE if free
%h	=	gig time
%i	=	gig info from each gig
%r	=	short description from each gig
%w	=	band/artist's web address

For all sites:You can show any part of the gig listing in a specific style by adding a digit 1 to 6 immediately after a symbol, e.g. %d2 will show the date in CSS style 2. If the 3 preset styles do not suit your site, you can create up to 3 new styles (styles 4, 5 and 6) and use them instead.

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