A lot of clients ask for holding pages on web projects, but at the same time wish to keep visitors up to date. After all, there is nothing worse than seeing a “Under construction, ready in Feb 2009” when the months pass and it becomes very outdated. With so much for free on the web it makes sense to use it and below outlines a nice use to create a more dynamic holding page.

You can use your Twitter feed to create an RSS feed of updates, which can then be used to make a news widget. For free new/feed widgets you can use BlastCasta, which even links to your Twitter feed for you if you provide your username. You can then customise this to suit and use Twitter to keep your visitors up to date with more than a generic message.