News-flashes

Discussion in 'XML & RSS' started by paieye, Mar 21, 2010.

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    Our group has its own, very simple, beginnerish web-site at The TEDWORTH Pony Club. The group wants to have a scrolling ticker-tape type of streamer or similar on the home-page that will provide the latest news-items -- news about the group, I mean, not about the world at large.

    I manage the site, and until recently achieved the desired result via a 'Marquee' streamer on the home-page.

    That had the disadvantage that I was responsible for inserting whatever text the group asked me to insert, and I want to avoid that.

    Question: Is it possible to achieve what the group wants by placing an RSS-streamer or similar on the home page, the feed for which can be controlled by nominated members of the group without reference to me ?

    If it is, could some kind soul explain in the simplest terms how to go about this ?

    One possibility that occurs to me is that I could link an RSS-streamer to (for example) an InvisionFree message-board; I would also administer the message-board, and could limit access to the message-board to individual members of the group; they would then post group news there without reference to me, and the streamer would display the posting.

    Might something like that be possible ?

    Thank you -- and my apology if I am in the wrong category here !

    paieye

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    paieye, Mar 21, 2010 IP