Hello,

In a future redesign of our site, we'd like to feed our blog posts to the center column of our front page, ideally when one of us blogs a new post the post will automatically updated on our front page, as our posts will not be long we'd prefer the entire post to show up, not just the title as a clickable link. Problem is I have no idea how to make that happen, any suggestions would be incredibly appreciated!

I'm assuming this would be some a string of code linking to the RSS of the of the blog, but really I haven't a clue.

Thanks,

Tiffany

Iframe?

Hi,

Thanks for replying :-)

I think I placed the emphasis of my problem on the wrong area what I need to know how to get the blog post to feed into our website, I know how to keep information confined to a specific area, its the actual getting the blogs to post directly to our blog and update themselves as new posts are entered that I can't figure our how to do.


Any ideas or suggestions will be helpful!

Thanks

Tiffany

I don't believe you're going to be able to make dynamic changes to the actual page content that's generated by VSD or HTML Editor. They generate static pages that have to be updated and re-published manually. Inger's input is still on target, as the only real solution I know of is to have your static page call in a section of dynamic HTML that's generated and update through another agency (such as your blogging software). You can have something like an iframe call the actual content that gets updated as you post blogs, or you can resort to something like the Flash-base blogging software that CC sells.

An example of an iframe calling dynamic content from within a static page is a golf league web site I maintain. Each page in the second batch of links is really a placeholder to impose a common look and feel, while calling in an iframe containing the tabular HTML data generated by our league management software each time we run the weekly results. If you're curious the link is:

http://www.golf1500.com

Cary has suggested using server-side includes as an alternative to iframes, though I confess I haven't done more than read a description of the process. I suspect that process goes outside the scope of what you can create using VSD, at least.

Tiffany Nasca,

Quick and simple but probably not as elegant as you want is to put the URL for the blog as the source for the iframe. The most recent post would be on top, and if you set the iframe to not have scroll bars, that might do want you want.

Hello...

I have done this on a site that I currently do some work for. I have used the IFrame to show the RSS feed created from the blog. The key here was to create an RSS feed to show all of the entry. Not too difficult as I am relatively a novice.
You can see what it looks like here: coconutsbarandgrill.com/entertainment.html
I used a small utility called RSS2HTML http://www.rss2html.com/ this is some PHP script that has unlimited modifications and instruction on how to use them. *(BE SURE TO READ THE TEXT FILE open it with MSWord it will be easier to read than notepad) it will save some headaches.
You will have to create a PHP template to upload for the RSS feed to process through.The instruction is pretty good and it's free. Questions are slow to answer but they do get back to you.
I chose this route since the blog account is a free one that contains advertising and I didn't want that displayed to customers causing confusion.

Good luck!

Thanks all :-)

I think Kyle hit the nail on the head, I was looking for a way to get the RSS to feed onto my website and show the complete posts.

Tiffany