anybody know how to do the RSS feed thing?
I'm putting a site together, and need to let people know when updates happen.
there a way I can manually type up a message and send it?
everything I've use so far that does rss just kinda does it without me.
RSS?
Re: RSS?
An ATOM or RSS feed is just a standardised XML file. It can be dynamically generated from database content so you don't usually have to update it manually. There's no reason why you can't but you'd have to make sure you get the markup 100% accurate. XML is very strict and doesn't cope with failure well. It's probably not a good idea. Are you building the site from scratch or is it based on something? You might want to read this.
Re: RSS?
complely from scratch.
http://www.johnnykaotic.com/sitemockup/gameportal3.html
I want to notify people when I change the "currently testing" bit
don't mind the unity webplayer
it doesnt work on purpose.
[EDIT]
Maybe I'm thinking of this the wrong way.
I just wanna update the rss to say "Hey a new test is running come check it out."
the twitter and facebook updates will say just about the same.
http://www.johnnykaotic.com/sitemockup/gameportal3.html
I want to notify people when I change the "currently testing" bit
don't mind the unity webplayer
it doesnt work on purpose.
[EDIT]
Maybe I'm thinking of this the wrong way.
I just wanna update the rss to say "Hey a new test is running come check it out."
the twitter and facebook updates will say just about the same.
Re: RSS?
Then that's not really something you'd attach to the site itself. The closest example I can think of is Opera, who post to their blog when there's a preview version out. So why not just post to your blog? If you want a separate feed just for these announcements, Blogger lets you use labels.
That's not to say you can't have that nifty feed icon that appears in the browser. It doesn't matter that the feed is hosted somewhere else. Just put these tags in the header like this. There's two tags because Blogger supports ATOM and RSS.
That's not to say you can't have that nifty feed icon that appears in the browser. It doesn't matter that the feed is hosted somewhere else. Just put these tags in the header like this. There's two tags because Blogger supports ATOM and RSS.
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<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Johnny Kaotic Announcements - ATOM" href="http://johnnykaotic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/announcements" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Johnny Kaotic Announcements - RSS" href="http://johnnykaotic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/announcements?alt=rss" />