Build a Public Facing Site Report for Clients
Posted on February 17th, 2010 by Chris Coyier
We recently had a request that someone wanted to have a page where their client could go see the current status of their page. This is basically what your dashboard of sites is when you log in to Are My Sites Up, but that is your private log in and you probably don’t want to give that out to anyone else.
You can make a public-facing page to display your current site statuses though! All of our premium plans offer an RSS feed for “instant site checks”, which basically means that the feed will return a list of all your sites and what the current status of them is (based on the last check).
I whipped up a quick demo page where this RSS feed is parsed with SimplePie and the results are shown in a simple table of results.
You can view the demo and download the files, if that is of interest to you.
Nice, hadn’t though of using the RSS feed in this way before, and was trying to figure out a way of doing this myself!
I implemented this on my site, works great and my clients love it! Great post.