hello all, i've completed my new website for news. i am interested in knowing about rss feeds... I have found one site that looks like it has an rss feed, could someone tell me what they do, asnd how they go about getting it like thi?? http://www.wn.com/pakistan it has like links of the source, i.e. dawn, abc etc etc and an image has been resized to fit the devolopers needs. also, this article, article, has a brief summary than if you click the read more link it goes to the source address.. i would love to know how this webmaster does this? any ideas thanks alot!
They use tools like simplepie and magpie. Check out my tutorials for more info: http://www.itamer.com/adding-rss-to-your-website/223/
zfeeder ( PHP ) open source from http://zvonnews.sourceforge.net/ can do the very same as n the site you refer to including photos - it also uses configurable TTL cache to save bandwidth and can easily be configured to create groupes of news channels as well as display single feeds and create wap feeds and OPML for feed groiups! zfeeder comes withz a number of CSS templates that can be adapted to your precise needs - I use zfeeder on my site in various dispyays to SSI my own 5 feeds, including picture news, as vertical display or boxes - just as needed. see an example with 2 styles on one page. every font, color, etc is configurable in the CSS and / or template. it can be used to insert your own feeds as well as any feeds from outside sources.on the web.
If you look enough, there are many free full text rss feeds out there where your visitors don't have to leave your site to read the entire article.
really? i have looked quite a bit in my defence, but cannot find some good ones.. . im just looking for one that can do what you said and i can simply edit it to my ways.. thanks again
however to read the entire article in SSI-RSS the original site would have to configure their RSS feeds to include the full article into the description tag among all the "normal" RSS feeds I have seen the past years - including major sources such as CNN, BBC, Yahoo, etc - I have never seen any having the full text in the description tag. my blog originally made such and I found it annoying to have to full text and huge RSS feeds. full content within RSS feed-description would have to be made specially by the original site/author and this makes lillte sense as it is beyond the scope of RSS feeds which are supposed to offer brief NEWS, hence heatlines and a brief summery of the actual content plus some multimedia content in mRSS feeds.
im so sorry but i have another question: how would one create a CSS style sheet such as the one that is presented in the following website: example any help on this question would greatly be appreciated!!
it's very much the same as the one i use in the sample i gave you earlier the horizontal width best is limited by the use of tables to vertical size is limited by the news post itself and the display like titles or no titles date or no date of feed etc are define in the template by including or removing certain variables the feed has zfeeder has templates that include all the data - up to you to remove the obsolete ones .css has all the display control like colors and fonts finally it depends on WHAT exact software you are going to use to SSI RSS feeds each SW may have a different approach it also may be important to use a CACHE for the news direct pulling each news each time a surfer loads a page may overload the supplier of your valuable newsfeeds and he may ban you zfeeder uses a cache that has a configurable TTL ( TTL = Time To Live ) for a feed - after that time the feed is reloaded from its original source usually 1 - 2 hrs TTL is plenty to be up-to-date and to protect the sources of RSS feeds sufficiently best you crate a test-page create a table then include into the table the RSS feed by PHP SSI then play around with the CSS details until you like what you see IF you use zfeeder - you may copy a CSS from any of my pages - most have the feed-display included ( just look at source of a page to see URL of my CSS, then download to use freely for yourself ) - then vary and adapt to your needs also make sure your SSI text maintains clean overall code validation of the pages