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Originally Posted by DanRichards
It is really not that simple. The legalities of syndicating RSS feeds are unclear. Here is a great article that delves into the issue:
http://www.feedforall.com/rss-copyright-debate.htm
Once you sort out the legalities displaying the RSS within your HTML website is not difficult. The easiest/best way to do this is to use RSS2HTML a free PHP script. This means that you can retain the complete control of the HTML layout (using templates) and make it match your existing design. Additionally using PHP rather than JavaScript will mean that search engine spiders can "spider" the contents of the RSS feeds.
Additional details and a free rss2html download is available at: http://www.feedforall.com/more-php.htm
Additional information and other options for displaying RSS feeds can be found at: http://www.rss-specifications.com/di...-rss-feeds.htm
HTH |
OK Thanks for that info. I'm still not exactly up on the lingo nor do I know how to do any programming or html so I'm a little confused I guess. But I will research it more. That last link seems to be a great summary of everything, explaining the benefits of each method to RSS. It's interesting with the copyright discussion link, I wonder what the end-result will be, as far as whether or not it is legal or illegal to use RSS to 'borrow' content.
On another note, is there ways to use RSS manually, meaning can I go on a SPECIFIC article on a website and use just that article? Or do you have to have it set up on auto-pilate to constantly pull info through the RSS which lists all the updates/articles from that site? There are times I just want to use 1 article and have it posted in my blog...