A question for the RSS warrior techies

[Ouroboros]

Okay,

I've been working on an RSS feed that I control so I wrote this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>This is the RSS Feed title</title>
<description>This is where you describe the feed name</description>
<link>http://www.thesitename.com</link>
<item>
<title>This is the RSS Item title</title>
<description>This is where you describe the feed item</description>
<link>http://www.thesitename.com/valid post name/</link>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

and uploaded it to http://thesitename.com/feedlist/feed

I was able to subscribe to it with the Yahoo aggregator at my yahoo page...

the links are blue and clickable but when I click on them nothing happens.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve

[KirkMcD]

Did you try right clicking on them and choosing "open in new window"?

[David]

Originally Posted by Ouroboros

Okay,

I've been working on an RSS feed that I control so I wrote this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>This is the RSS Feed title</title>
<description>This is where you describe the feed name</description>
<link>http://www.thesitename.com</link>
<item>
<title>This is the RSS Item title</title>
<description>This is where you describe the feed item</description>
<link>http://www.thesitename.com/valid post name/</link>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

and uploaded it to http://thesitename.com/feedlist/feed

I was able to subscribe to it with the Yahoo aggregator at my yahoo page...

the links are blue and clickable but when I click on them nothing happens.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve

What if my page is dynamic generated?

lemme ask this first... LOL

so, to use this feed, I'd have to create a static page and name it .xml or
.rss or ... ???

it looks like code, can the code be embedded into an existing static page?

or does one make a separate file?

...wondering if I'm confusing this with a sitemap.xml


I left the WF in 2006, had just learned how to edit .cgi scripts and fiddle with perl

now I gotta learn .php and .xml and ????
Geez, the learning curve never ends

[Ouroboros]

I got it working, I had made a minor mistake...

David,

Just fill out the blanks as above with a test editor like Notepad and name the file "feed.xml "(or george or paul.xml, don't think it matters). Then when you submit it to the Rss sites they will have a description and title for your static site (the channel), and each of the "items" can be a page, or a blog post, whatever, as long as it has a URL.

Hope that helps

Steve

[David]

Originally Posted by Ouroboros

I got it working, I had made a minor mistake...

David,

Just fill out the blanks as above with a test editor like Notepad and name the file "feed.xml "(or george or paul.xml, don't think it matters). Then when you submit it to the Rss sites they will have a description and title for your static site (the channel), and each of the "items" can be a page, or a blog post, whatever, as long as it has a URL.

Hope that helps

Steve

ok.. so what if my site is not a 'real site' ??

it's a dynamic site, there IS no ftp or static page...
am I SOL?

[Ouroboros]

You'll have to explain, you have me confused now...

[David]

My site is dynamically generated.
I can not upload a file, it's a one page site.

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I cannot upload a file because there is no file
there is no ftp

which is why I chose to use the feedyes.com method of creating an rss feed for my non blog site.