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lostboys · Jan 12th, 2008, 12:21

can anyone help me on how i add RSS feeds to my site i have no idea at all searched a lil but still not sure how it all works.
do i get a rss feed maker than ust add the links to my site but then how does it update its self and where do you get the feeds from.

i have a css business site i just wanted to use feeds to help my optomistaion and keep my site intresting

spinal007 · Jan 13th, 2008, 14:20

ok, questions:
1. What are you going to put in the RSS feed? news? updates? articles?
2. Where do they come from? A database? Or do you just type'em up?

There are 'feed maker' tools out there, which basically, crawl your site and create the code - then all you have to do is upload the xml file to your server. Those are fine, but rely on human interaction to be updated (ie.: you have to do something).

If you want a "real" rss feed, you will need some sort of server-side scripting to make it work. But I won't go there yet, I'll wait and see what you come back with...

lostboys · Jan 17th, 2008, 16:25

well i want to have customer comments latest projects and latest products as my feeds i will have a blog where i will add these things but thought that if i had rss feeds that automatically updated from my blog that would be great is that what a rss feed does or am i confused.

alexgeek · Jan 17th, 2008, 19:59

Why don't you use wordpress to do this automatically?

alexgeek · Jan 17th, 2008, 20:00

Or read my article on Dynamic RSS Feeds.

lostboys · Jan 17th, 2008, 22:27

i am useing a word press blog but i wanted to get the live feeds to come up on the home page of my site is that possible cheers

alexgeek · Jan 17th, 2008, 23:08

Do you mean the actual XML appear in with the HTML? You can't do that.
You can parse it. Which means you could turn all <title> XML tags into <h2> tags or something.
Or you can provide a link alternate which would put the RSS feed button in the address bar.