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Astralis
Senior Member
USA
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 Posted - 03 November 2003 : 20:47:09
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What's RSS all about? I've heard it's useful for syndication but I have no clue how to grab anything in RSS and put it on my site. It looks very difficult whereas the Javascript syndication scripts have always worked nice for me.
BTW, the Snitz Javascript Mod has been wonderful on all my sites but no one ever talks about it. I hope there is still interest in it so that future versions will always have someone developing it.
Please help with explaining how to work with RSS. Thanks! |
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laser
Advanced Member
Australia
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Posted - 03 November 2003 : 21:03:04
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I know nothing about RSS, but I have installed the rssfeed.asp that Richard wrote & released a few weeks ago. I only use it to track Active Topics so I know what's happening on the site (this one and mine) without having to check the Active Topics page all the time. I used to use the Trillian Pro plugin, but found FeedReader (http://www.feedreader.com/) a lot better.
Slashdot also does a RSS feed, but any other good tips are appreciated. |
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Astralis
Senior Member
USA
1218 Posts |
Posted - 03 November 2003 : 21:24:10
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| Lots of sites have RSS but are there that many people truly using it? Also, is it worth developing in it because it looks as if it usurps the advertising. I also added the rssfeed.asp to my site a couple of months ago - I have no idea if anyone is using it, though. |
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n8pbm
Junior Member
USA
212 Posts |
Posted - 04 November 2003 : 10:17:55
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| I have never seen the Snitz Javascript Mod. Is this available somewhere? I did not see it when i searched this site. |
Mike
Great Lakes Pop Up Club Camping |
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Astralis
Senior Member
USA
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Mr Pink
Junior Member
United Kingdom
387 Posts |
Posted - 05 November 2003 : 07:58:28
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For all of us dumbo's out there, is there an idiots guide to RSS, I've had a look at a few downloads but they usually require you to load extra software to set them up, feedreader is one example. The snitz version is just a page full of code, how do you actually get the feeds to display on your own site
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Martin
Leyland Forum Leyland Lancashire UK |
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ROB
Junior Member
USA
347 Posts |
Posted - 05 November 2003 : 17:27:51
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quote:
Originally posted by Astralis
Lots of sites have RSS but are there that many people truly using it? Also, is it worth developing in it because it looks as if it usurps the advertising. I also added the rssfeed.asp to my site a couple of months ago - I have no idea if anyone is using it, though.
I use RSS personally, and more and more others are, too. It doesn't entirely usurp advertising either. Because it only provides the headline and a possibly a brief description, the user must click through to see the entire content.
I actually generate two RSS feeds on my site; one for recent forum topics and another for the latest IM news articles.
If you don't want to load a newsreader or if you just want to see what RSS is all about, the Daily Rotation has over 200 RSS feeds and you can customize your own "news page" drawing from those sources. Pretty slick stuff. |
Jeff (ROB) Hester
BigBlueNetwork | BigBlueBall | Christian Church Today |
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