About This Website
This website serves the needs of three audiences:
- The General Public
- Leaders of the Packs, Troops, and Crews of the National Pike District
- NPD Scouters of all ages.
Besides providing basic announcments, contacts, and an event calendar, the website provides the capabilities listed below. Please take a few minutes to become familiar with what this website can do for you or your pack, troop or crew.
Got a suggestion? How about a really big idea? Send us an email.
Add National Pike Headlines to Your Website
On the NationaPike.org website, we are offering an RSS, - thats Really Simple Syndication, - an RSS Headline feed. With this, your unit website can automatically display headlines in a box from the announcements on the NationalPike.org website. When the user clicks on a headline, they are taken to the article on NationalPike.org. When NationalPike.org posts a new article, the headline automatically shows up on your website.
Method 1: You can display National Pike Headlines on any web page by including the following HTML snippit:
<iframe src ="http://nationalpike.org/np_announce_box_ext.php" width="40%" align=left frameborder=0 height=100% scrolling=no> </iframe>
This will produce the headlines in a box similar to that on the NationalPike.org home page.
Method 2: If your website software can display RSS/XML feeds directly, the URL for the NationalPike.org RSS feed is:
http://nationalpike.org/headlines/feed
or
http://www.nationalpike.org/headlines/feed
If you use this feature on your unit website, we would appreciate it if you send a courtesy note to the webmaster at NationalPike.org
Import NPD Events Into Your Personal Calendar
iCalendar is a standard data format for exchanging information about meetings and events between different calendar programs, PDAs, cell phones, etc. Most programs that have planning calendars can import an iCal file.
One iCal file may represent a single meeting, a whole month of events, or a whole year of events. You will find an icon 
for downloading an iCal file at the bottom of every Day, Month, or Year view of the Calendar on this website. You may also find an icon on some announcments.
The iCal file may not be comaptible with all calendar programs. Importing/opening it twice may or may not result in duplicate events on your calendar.
We cannot provide tech support for any problems you may have, but we would appreciate a note to webmaster@nationalpike.org if you find it is incompatible with your favorite calendar program. Please include the version number of your program. We will post a warning list here of incompatible programs.