j’s scratchpad

One of the questions I’ve been getting frequently is how to place a feed on a Web site. I don’t really know the answer myself and asking around wasn’t as successful as I hoped it would be. I know how to do it by running a feed through Frassle first, but there must be a more direct way to do it.

It looks like you need a feed and something to convert the feed into a format a Web browser can read, like HTML or Javascript. That something could be a script on your own server or a tool in another place.

• Syndicating Your Web Site’s Content with RSS focuses mostly on creating an RSS feed, but there is some information about placing a feed on the site near the bottom.

• Adding Information Feeds to Your Site describes how one man used Javascript and style sheets to add a feed.
• Kansas City Infozine’s directions for adding their content to a Web site–they have something on their site converting the RSS to HTML and Javascript: notice the URLs.
• A WebReference.com tutorial on using Perl scripts to convert RSS XML to HTML
• RSS and Atom tools from Gecko Tribe look like you need to run a feed through their service in order to be able to use it on a Web site, which is very similar to the feature on Frassle.
• This Web design page on about.com points to some tools in the paragraphs under Web Developers.
• RSS Utilities: A Tutorial explains how to do it on JavaServer Pages sites.

It sure would be nice if there was something on this server converting feeds to something that could be placed on a Web site.

Addendum 10/29: Christina and Lisa suggest some resources, too.

I added a few more to the list above.

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