You can put all your META tags in the HEAD and just have a pile of them if you want, which is fine:
It's literally minutes of work on the low end, and maybe an hour if you go nuts with JavaScript. There's a very detailed API on MSDN if you'd like to understand all the little details of Pinned SItes with IE9, 10 and 11. View Source or visit the link there for details. You can still do that for your Windows Taskbar, in fact, and get a nice right-click context menu with lots of quick access to my site, archives and podcasts.
The easiest way to make one of these is to visit as they have a wizard that helps you make four file sizes and setup notifications from your RSS feed, as well as pick the background color for your Tile.ĪSIDE: Back when IE9 came out, I added Site Pinning support to my site in a similar way. My RSS feed will start coming in soon and the Live Tile will flip over.
#LIVE TILES NOT WORKING IN WINDOWS 8 FULL#
Open Full Screen IE (that's the big blue IE from the Start Screen, not the one on your Desktop).Pin a Site to your Windows 8.1 Start Screen You can add some HTML META markup to your site now and have a multi-size automatically updating Live Tile for Windows 8.1 in minutes. We also have RSS feeds that contain our content and let folks know when a site has been updated. We have perfectly lovely sites today and work just fine. Certainly there's no reason or need for a "Hanselman" app anymore than there's a need for an app for, say, The. I'm a web guy and I like web sites, though. If you've got Windows 8.1, you've likely figured out that the most fun apps are ones that have active live tiles. I actually set this up on my site a few months back when Windows 8.1 preview showed up, but I didn't mention it.