Saturday, April 17, 2010

Create an RSS feed/file and display it on my website for free.?

I would like to create an rss feed/file to display on my website. I am also looking for some sort of tool or applet to attractively display the rss on my website for news and announcements. I would like to manage these myself if possible. Any suggestions?

Create an RSS feed/file and display it on my website for free.?
The easiest way to create an RSS feed is to use software. The software I would recommend is FeedForAll (there is a Windows and a Mac version). There is a built-in wizard that will walk you through the process of creating a feed.





You can download an evaluation version from http://www.feedforall.com





If you prefer to create the feed by hand this website details how to hand code the RSS feed http://www.make-rss-feeds.com





It sounds like you want to display an RSS feed within your HTML website. The easiest/best way to do this is to use RSS2HTML a free PHP script. This means that you can retain the complete control of the HTML layout (using templates) and make it match your existing design. Additionally using PHP rather than JavaScript will mean that search engine spiders can "spider" the contents of the RSS feeds.





Additional details and a free rss2html download is available at: http://www.feedforall.com/more-php.htm





Additional information and other options for displaying RSS feeds can be found at: http://www.rss-specifications.com/displa...





Goodluck!
Reply:n addition to making your RSS feed available to your visitors for use with their RSS Feed Reader, as a webmaster you may also want to make the same feed available on your website for viewing with a regular web browser.





There are several ways to do this, some have advantages or disadvantages compared to others. The best solution is one where the webpage is automatically updated on-the-fly, is easily spidered by search engine robots, and easy to implement.





To attain this optimal solution, the developers of FeedForAll have created a free RSS to HTML PHP script. When used, this script will allow you to create webpages that will always display the most current information from your RSS feed, and because the resulting page is pure HTML, it will be in a format friendly to search engine robots.








Purpose: Display an RSS feed's contents on a webpage Advantages: Always displays the most current information from your RSS feed Search engine spider and robot friendly Will run on any webserver that supports PHP Easy to implement Requirements: Website RSS 2.0, .93, .92, .91, or .90 feed








Implementation: There are three ways the RSS to HTML PHP script can be implemented on your website.





1.) Put a free copy of the rss2html.php script on your webserver and call it by passing the URLs of your feed and webpage template files.





2.) Put a free copy of the rss2html.php script on your webserver and edit its feed and template variables





3.) Run the rss2html.php script from a server, passing it the URLs of your feed and webpage template files free of charge.





4.) Pass your feed to the RSS2HTML server which will display the feed in an html format free of charge.





http://www.feedforall.com/more-php.htm
Reply:RSS2HTML is your best bet, very easy to use. I've been using it for a while, just be sure that your host has cURL open (installed?) otherwise you will get occasional errors in reading the feed.
Reply:You can get all rss feeds and buttons etc from Feedburner - free and reliable


http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home


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