Come stalk us! Social media update time!

Our Spot device

We have come to realize that the easiest way to update our feeds is actually through Twitter. We have tried to avoid it like the plague, but since it ties in all our social medias together, we might as well use it. And we'll use the crap out of it!

So to announce our Twitter feed, we have also created a new page for you guys! Check out our new page on our blog "Stalk us!"; but please don't be creepy about it - haha.

If your'e ever missing us and wondering how we're doing and where we are, check this page.

Stalk us page!

We included a "how to" section to put your own Twitter feeds and Spot updates into your own blog. (We're so cool!)

Also, ontop of the Stalk Us page, we've put in a map that tracks our location using Spot. A GPS device that allows you to follow where we are in the world. However, if you see a "No message to display" message, it means we haven't updated it in more than 7 days - which at the time of writing we haven't updated.

We're doing this because everytime we come home people always ask "How was your trip? What did you do?!" Not that we hate to tell you, but we just experiece so much it's difficult to share everything in one sitting. This way you have a general idea of what we did and you can interrogate us about that! =)

And P.S - this video is hilarious.



HOW TO PUT TWITTER FEED IN YOUR BLOG
This next part is for those who also want to know how to put Twitter in your blogs. Putting the feed needs a widget.


Twitter end
1) Go into your Twitter account and into settings
2) Left handside bar navigation, go to the bottom where you see "widgets". Click on it, a new page will prompt up.
3) Select "Create new".
4) Choose the settings you want. Should be straight forward.
5) Click "Create widget"
6) Copy the coding that shows up at the bottom.

Blog end
Now that you have the code, log into your account to the page you want to have the widget.

1) In your new page, switch from "Compose" to "HTML"
2) Paste your code into the "HTML". You should have the code from the Twitter widget.
3) Save and publish.

You can edit your feed again by going into Twitter under widgets.

Voila! You're good to go! You should see the Twitter feed appear on your blog. And everytime you tweet, it'll show up on your blog.

HOW TO EMBED SPOT SHARED PAGES INTO YOUR BLOG
If you already own a spot device and you want to share your Spot updates onto your blog, follow these steps.

Spot end
You'll need to create a share page and know the address of that page

1) Log into your Spot account.
2) Look in the tab section, you'll see "My GPS location etc." Click on "Share"
3) Look for "Create shared page" - This page updates everytime you click on Spot
4) Create the page
5) Take note of your shared page address

Blog end
Log into your blog account

1) In your new page, switch from "Compose" to "HTML"
2) Copy and paste this code into your page:

<div style="text-align: center;">
<iframe src="YOUR SHARED PAGE WEB ADDRESS" width="600" height="500">
</iframe>
</div>

3) Replace the red text with your "shared page" web address. You can change the width and height to your liking. (Oh the power of iframes!)

4) Save and publish.

Voila! Everytime you push "Ok" on your Spot, your location will appear on your webpage.