Snooglebum Posted March 2, 2011 Does anybody if there's some sort of service that allows one to embed some sort of weird news feed thing that one could edit into a web page? Sorry for the vague question, but the homepage of snooglebum.com is completely blank right now, which looks really stupid, and I'd rather have some sort of news feed there. Any help would be appreciated. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snooglebum Posted March 2, 2011 I mean, something you can drop into a HTML document that already exists. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marven Posted March 2, 2011 So you're looking for an embedded news feed from somewhere else? Google Gadgets might have what you're looking for. I'm sure there are RSS feed readers you could embed too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Forbin Posted March 2, 2011 If you have an RSS feed you have in mind to consume, then there's a simple google js file that will help load the content into any plain HTML file. It gets around the cross-site scripting restriction by embedding the XML file as a script tag. Do you have a new feed in mind to consume? Or were you looking at creating your own news/blog? If you want to do your own, then I'd look into tumblr. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Forbin Posted March 2, 2011 If you want to grab the blogger feed: http://snooglebumexists.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss And here's the google js library: http://code.google.com/apis/feed/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snooglebum Posted March 3, 2011 If you have an RSS feed you have in mind to consume, then there's a simple google js file that will help load the content into any plain HTML file. It gets around the cross-site scripting restriction by embedding the XML file as a script tag.Do you have a new feed in mind to consume? Or were you looking at creating your own news/blog? If you want to do your own, then I'd look into tumblr. I mean, I want to be able to make one that others could consume, that I could edit, that would show up on a webpage. Wouldn't have to be fancy, just a list of news. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Forbin Posted March 3, 2011 right. you have a blog, and it already has an RSS feed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snooglebum Posted March 3, 2011 I thinking of something specifically for news, just to announce when I put out a new song or video. Can I create a new blog and embed a feed to that blog in the homepage of my website? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrHoatzin Posted March 3, 2011 You know that you cannot do anything that dynamic without any kind of scripting, be it PHP or javascript? Can you describe the actual interaction between visitors and this feed, you and this feed, rss and this "feed"? I don't think we're any clearer on what it is you're trying to do after ten posts. Maybe all of your problems cab be solved with a twitter widget? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nappi Posted March 3, 2011 What a lot of smaller sites seem to be doing nowadays is to have a separate blog for announcements and rants and so on and just have a link to it (and possibly an rss ticker or something) in the actual webpage. I don't know anything about websites, though, so I can't help you at the actual implementation. Or in fact, at all, as what I have said has basically been stated already. Maybe something along these lines would be enough: http://www.rsspump.com/ (That's just the first page google provided me with, so it might be... you know... shit.) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elmuerte Posted March 4, 2011 you could put your twitter stream on it, like I do http://elmuerte.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Snooglebum Posted March 4, 2011 Something like the "Recent News" section on the right on this site. Nothing that pretty or elaborate of course, that's beyond my coding expertise. Just a little feed I could throw on my embarrassingly empty homepage that's sitting on my website doing nothing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrHoatzin Posted March 4, 2011 Why not just bake some simple html right into the page with relevant news infos? <h2>Headline</h2> <h3>June 67th 4657</h3> <p>This is interesting stuff! Download it <a href="poop://blargh.biz/foo.asp?ook=3">here!</a></p> <h2>Headline</h2> <h3>June 67th 4657</h3> <p>This is interesting stuff! Download it <a href="poop://blargh.biz/foo.asp?ook=3">here!</a></p> <h2>Headline</h2> <h3>June 67th 4657</h3> <p>This is interesting stuff! Download it <a href="poop://blargh.biz/foo.asp?ook=3">here!</a></p> and then style it in css. Just keep adding to the page, you have the flexibility of doing whatever you want and it is not too complicated to keep up. Fills the page up. It is not technically a feed, tho. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Forbin Posted March 4, 2011 You could use the google feed api to consume your entire blog RSS, and filter out the items that you consider news, by tagging them (or labeling in blogger) as "news". You just need to check the value of category tags. If you're not comfortable with that much javascript work, you can do the filtering with a Yahoo Pipe, and it can filter out all the news posts. Unless you don't want your news posts showing up on your blog. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
