RSS Feeds links ...???

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.....Welll ithink thats what they are called ....Hi i'm creating a web page for my new co and would like to insert the news ,the weather and the local time on the home page any suggestions on how this can be done ?? thanks in anticipation ...Lee

dipsy

I will show you for a fee :-) x

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More to the point, why would you want to clutter a professional page up with that?

If I want to know the time, I can look in the bottom right of my screen.

If I want to read the news and weather, I can go to a news site to do it.

john_s_2

I'd be interested in this too. I run a supporters website for a League Two club and would like to display the BBC League Two headlines down the side of the front page.

I did manage this for a while but the only solution I found was to go through a third party website (which placed a small advert underneath the list - fair enough I thought). I can't remember the details but it required fiddling around with the .htacess file. After a few months it stopped working and I just removed it - I didn't bother investigating (and put my .htaccess file back to how it was before- I was never really comfortable with that bit as I didn't really understand what I'd done! Not a good idea really...).

The BBC do offer their own solution:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/shared/bsp/hi/services/htmlsyndication/html/default.stm

But when I investigated this last, there was only a general 'sport' set of headlines to choose from. Of course, I may have been breaking the conditions of Aunty by using the method I found, in which case I wouldn't want to do it anyway.

I'll add that the method I used didn't require javascript to be enabled in the browser (I use NoScript) while the BBC's method described on that page does. I'm afraid I can't remember the website I used, I seem to have deleted all traces of it from my files.

Edit: I just found this on the BBC site - I remember reading this at the time and thinking that what I was doing was OK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/help/rss/default.stm#mysite

But it doesn't say how to do it. I think it assumes that a webmaster would know. Or if s/he has to ask, they shouldn't be trying ;-)

Edit 2: Just did a Google and found the website I was using:

http://rssfeedreader.com/

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anewhope wrote: »

More to the point, why would you want to clutter a professional page up with that?

If I want to know the time, I can look in the bottom right of my screen.

If I want to read the news and weather, I can go to a news site to do it.

strange response..guess you have lots of time on your hands ... but thankyou anyway .....more to the point do you know me ...do you know my line of work ?....er NO!!! ...so i assume by your responce that you can't help me !!! ....PS Sports web page ....7,000 members ...survey showed that it is what they wanted ....

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strange response..guess you have lots of time on your hands ... but thankyou anyway .....more to the point do you know me ...do you know my line of work ?....er NO!!! ...so i assume by your responce that you can't help me !!! ....PS Sports web page ....7,000 members ...survey showed that it is what they wanted ....

I was just asking the reasons why you wanted to, not for a load of lip from you.

Simple, polite answer would have been quite enough.

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john_s wrote: »

I'd be interested in this too. I run a supporters website for a League Two club and would like to display the BBC League Two headlines down the side of the front page.

I did manage this for a while but the only solution I found was to go through a third party website (which placed a small advert underneath the list - fair enough I thought). I can't remember the details but it required fiddling around with the .htacess file. After a few months it stopped working and I just removed it - I didn't bother investigating (and put my .htaccess file back to how it was before- I was never really comfortable with that bit as I didn't really understand what I'd done! Not a good idea really...).

The BBC do offer their own solution:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/shared/bsp/hi/services/htmlsyndication/html/default.stm

But when I investigated this last, there was only a general 'sport' set of headlines to choose from. Of course, I may have been breaking the conditions of Aunty by using the method I found, in which case I wouldn't want to do it anyway.

I'll add that the method I used didn't require javascript to be enabled in the browser (I use NoScript) while the BBC's method described on that page does. I'm afraid I can't remember the website I used, I seem to have deleted all traces of it from my files.

Edit: I just found this on the BBC site - I remember reading this at the time and thinking that what I was doing was OK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/help/rss/default.stm#mysite

But it doesn't say how to do it. I think it assumes that a webmaster would know. Or if s/he has to ask, they shouldn't be trying ;-)

Edit 2: Just did a Google and found the website I was using:

http://rssfeedreader.com/

HI John thanks for your reply and links ...will check these out ...will keep you posted if i find what i'm looking for

Cheers Lee