RSS feeds and blogs

pengyou · 04-18-2008, 08:24 AM

I have a very meager understanding of RSS feeds. The basic idea seems to be that it is an automated delivery system, to have news automatically delivered to your email or rss feed reader without having to go to the same site every day and download it, etc.

I am wondering if it is possible to have a template in a blog set up to receive a picture from another blog as an rss feed as well as the text concerning that picture?

**Jaxo** · 04-18-2008, 10:41 PM

I do not know a lot about rss (it's on my ever growing list of "stuff to know about), but I do have a question for you. Searching through Google it seems that there are specific sites you can pull info to/from. A few examples are facebook, wordpress, new blogger, etc...

Possibly could help to know where from and to you are pulling the rss feed?

**DumberDrummer** · 04-19-2008, 12:00 PM

I'm fairly competent with RSS, but to help I need a bit more information, such as which blogging software you're using and what RSS feeds.

If you're proficient with HTML and have passable knowledge of PHP you could use something like this and then setup a php page in your blog to call your RSS feeds through that script and display them.

If you just want to read the RSS and have a bunch of them grouped together, may I suggest Google Reader?

pengyou · 04-19-2008, 05:09 PM

Thanks! I am a newb at this stuff...am just figuring out what rss means. The Free RSS to HTML might do. What I need to be able to do, in addition to passing text, is to pass a picture as well. Can it do this? Wait! I just looked further...it will manage pictures. Thanks a million! If you were here I would give you a big hug and a cheesecake :)

**DumberDrummer** · 04-19-2008, 07:51 PM

I'm down with cheesecake :D

04-18-2008, 08:24 AM	#1 (permalink)
pengyou Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 154 OS: xp & 98	RSS feeds and blogs I have a very meager understanding of RSS feeds. The basic idea seems to be that it is an automated delivery system, to have news automatically delivered to your email or rss feed reader without having to go to the same site every day and download it, etc. I am wondering if it is possible to have a template in a blog set up to receive a picture from another blog as an rss feed as well as the text concerning that picture?

04-18-2008, 10:41 PM	#2 (permalink)
Jaxo Design Team Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Deming, NM Posts: 312 OS: XP SP2 & Vista	Re: RSS feeds and blogs I do not know a lot about rss (it's on my ever growing list of "stuff to know about), but I do have a question for you. Searching through Google it seems that there are specific sites you can pull info to/from. A few examples are facebook, wordpress, new blogger, etc... Possibly could help to know where from and to you are pulling the rss feed? __________________ Help TSF Fight Cancer! Web Developer Tools: Firebug for Firefox \| IE Developer Toolbar \| Run multiple versions of IE

04-19-2008, 12:00 PM	#3 (permalink)
DumberDrummer Cymru am byth Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Oregon Posts: 5,385 OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 My System	Re: RSS feeds and blogs I'm fairly competent with RSS, but to help I need a bit more information, such as which blogging software you're using and what RSS feeds. If you're proficient with HTML and have passable knowledge of PHP you could use something like this and then setup a php page in your blog to call your RSS feeds through that script and display them. If you just want to read the RSS and have a bunch of them grouped together, may I suggest Google Reader? __________________ Living with Louie dog's the only way to stay sane _____________________________________________ ... and with those words so begins my lifetime of longing for the devil's warm embrace

04-19-2008, 05:09 PM	#4 (permalink)
pengyou Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 154 OS: xp & 98	Re: RSS feeds and blogs Thanks! I am a newb at this stuff...am just figuring out what rss means. The Free RSS to HTML might do. What I need to be able to do, in addition to passing text, is to pass a picture as well. Can it do this? Wait! I just looked further...it will manage pictures. Thanks a million! If you were here I would give you a big hug and a cheesecake :)

04-19-2008, 07:51 PM	#5 (permalink)
DumberDrummer Cymru am byth Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Oregon Posts: 5,385 OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 My System	Re: RSS feeds and blogs I'm down with cheesecake :D __________________ Living with Louie dog's the only way to stay sane _____________________________________________ ... and with those words so begins my lifetime of longing for the devil's warm embrace