Can anyone recomend a software package which will auto generate an RSS Feed and auto-update the feed when the contents of a specific page on our site changes? Our site runs several pages which have feeds associated with them which quickly go out of date so automatically generated feeds would appear to be the solution. Regards Neall McLaren ICT Assistant Yes2work Ltd. The Acorn Centre 51 High Street Grimethorpe Barnsley S 72 7BB Website: http://www.yes2work.org.uk Email: nmclaren@yes2work.org.uk
Hi Neall, Are the pages generated from a database? If so then creating a feed is pretty easy stuff. We would need to know how the site works and what sort of information you are looking to put in the feeds. Edit: you seem to use a content management solution, this should have the ability to generate the feeds for you.
One of our vacancies pages is actually generated from an MS SQL 2k DB, but the News and Bullietin feeds are based on pages which I write / updarte manually using a text Editor (Crimson Editor). We don't use a CMS anywhere on the site. Here are some pages from our site which might help you to understand things better:- http://www.yes2work.org.uk/news/news.asp?meniID=5 - News page created using text editor. http://www.yes2work.org.uk/lookingforwork/vacancies.asp?submenuID=1 - Vacancy Board generated from SQL DB. http://www.yes2work.org.uk/vacpostings/vacposting.asp?submenuID=3 - Vacancy Bulletins created / edited using a text editor. http://www.yes2work.org.uk/rss/rss.asp - link to RSS page which gives feed addresses. Hope all this helps Regards Neall