Stephen Kriso
Trial User
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You have a RSS Reader to incorporate outside feeds into a site, but what about a utility that creates the RSS feed of the site so that others can subscribe to your site. Seems like a perfect match to have both.
BillR
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You may want to click on profile, and change your forum name to something other than your email address. This is a public forum and you email address is available for viewing.
The CoffeeCup RSS News Flash will create a local feed that can be accessed by others. When you open the program, you should see a "My News" icon that looks like a red book with a pencil sticking out of book opening. Click on that icon and you will be in the RSS feed creator. Just fill in the blanks and when you are finished, click on "Save Entry" and you will have a blank form to create the next entry.
It works great for a local site, and I tested it from another site and it worked there as well. To create the entry on a second site, select the blue "News Feeds" icon, click on the add icon on the right of the screen and a title and the URL of the file on the other site.
Next would be to figure out how to put an icon on your site that will automatically add the information for visitors to your site. I haven't tried this so I can't help with it. YET! Bill R.
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The CoffeeCup RSS News Flash will create a local feed that can be accessed by others. When you open the program, you should see a "My News" icon that looks like a red book with a pencil sticking out of book opening. Click on that icon and you will be in the RSS feed creator. Just fill in the blanks and when you are finished, click on "Save Entry" and you will have a blank form to create the next entry.
It works great for a local site, and I tested it from another site and it worked there as well. To create the entry on a second site, select the blue "News Feeds" icon, click on the add icon on the right of the screen and a title and the URL of the file on the other site.
Next would be to figure out how to put an icon on your site that will automatically add the information for visitors to your site. I haven't tried this so I can't help with it. YET! Bill R.
First Baptist Church
Brighter Day Charities
Roberson Family
BillR
Senior Advisor
3,144 posts
Once you get your RSS feed ready, and on your site, you just need a single line of code to activate the Firefox, Opera, and IE RSS icon. Anyone visiting your site will be able to click on that RSS icon and put the information in their reader. The RSS icon shows up on the right side of the Firefox URL, and if you click on the icon, you will be using the Firefox reader to view the file you created. With Opera, clicking on the icon just asks you if you want to subscribe. The icon is on a tool bar for IE, and will also offer the option to subscribe.
That line of code that goes between the <head> and </head> tags reads like this:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://www.yoursite.com/yournews.txt" title="YOUR News">
I have the URL pointing to a txt file since that is what the CC RSS program creates. Just change the YOUR type information and it will work. Bill R.
First Baptist Church
Brighter Day Charities
Roberson Family
That line of code that goes between the <head> and </head> tags reads like this:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://www.yoursite.com/yournews.txt" title="YOUR News">
I have the URL pointing to a txt file since that is what the CC RSS program creates. Just change the YOUR type information and it will work. Bill R.
First Baptist Church
Brighter Day Charities
Roberson Family
J R
Registered User
89 posts
BillR
when you say change YOUR type.. do you mean cahnge
type="application/rss+xml
or are you simply referring to the URL pointer?
Also can you tell us where the head tags will be? Are you stating to put it in the VSD "edit header" and past it there?
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when you say change YOUR type.. do you mean cahnge
type="application/rss+xml
or are you simply referring to the URL pointer?
Also can you tell us where the head tags will be? Are you stating to put it in the VSD "edit header" and past it there?
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J R
Registered User
89 posts
I have two separate RSS news feeds that I want people to subscribe to
they are
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://www.topshelfsexy.com/rss-contest.txt" title="YOUR Top Shelf Sexy Contest News">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://www.topshelfsexy.com/rss-home.txt" title="YOUR Top Shelf Sexy News">
both are on separate pages and I am going to assume the code just needs to be inserted in the VSD "edit header" area
I'll let you know if this works
by the way.. to let everyone know.. I have the latest version.. and also my modem is plugged in..
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they are
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://www.topshelfsexy.com/rss-contest.txt" title="YOUR Top Shelf Sexy Contest News">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://www.topshelfsexy.com/rss-home.txt" title="YOUR Top Shelf Sexy News">
both are on separate pages and I am going to assume the code just needs to be inserted in the VSD "edit header" area
I'll let you know if this works
by the way.. to let everyone know.. I have the latest version.. and also my modem is plugged in..
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J R
Registered User
89 posts
i am doing something wrong.. and effort seems to be the culprit
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Bruzer
Senior Advisor
3,910 posts
Hi JR,
check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liIdmMsJSYo
or http://www.xul.fr/en-xml-rss.html "It's A Smart Person That Asks"
check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liIdmMsJSYo
or http://www.xul.fr/en-xml-rss.html "It's A Smart Person That Asks"
BillR
Senior Advisor
3,144 posts
J R wrote:
BillR
when you say change YOUR type.. do you mean cahnge
type="application/rss+xml
or are you simply referring to the URL pointer?
Also can you tell us where the head tags will be? Are you stating to put it in the VSD "edit header" and past it there?
BillR
when you say change YOUR type.. do you mean cahnge
type="application/rss+xml
or are you simply referring to the URL pointer?
Also can you tell us where the head tags will be? Are you stating to put it in the VSD "edit header" and past it there?
This line of code is what I was referring to:
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://www.yoursite.com/yournews.txt" title="YOUR News">
Yes, with VSD, you edit the header to place code between the <head> and </head> tags.
Since I originally posted that line of code (2008) I have learned that the RSS file you use needs to be named with with a .xml extension. So try renaming rss-contest.txt to rss-contest.xml and change that in the VSD header also. Bill R.
First Baptist Church
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J R
Registered User
89 posts
ok I did change the code in te header area for VSD.
The other instruction eludes me a bit
do you want me to take the text file.. and rename the extension to an xml?
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The other instruction eludes me a bit
do you want me to take the text file.. and rename the extension to an xml?
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BillR
Senior Advisor
3,144 posts
J R,
To get the RSS feed icons to work properly, change the text files generated by the RSS Feed Reader to .xml files. Just rename the files by changing the extension from .txt to .xml and also make the change in the header code. Bill R.
First Baptist Church
Brighter Day Charities
Roberson Family
To get the RSS feed icons to work properly, change the text files generated by the RSS Feed Reader to .xml files. Just rename the files by changing the extension from .txt to .xml and also make the change in the header code. Bill R.
First Baptist Church
Brighter Day Charities
Roberson Family
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