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More About RSS-to-Javascript

Bill Gillhespy Fort Myers Beach Realtor asked about the how and why of the RSS-to-Javascript tool

RSS-to-Javascript-Converter

I'll try to create an example using our old friends at El-Mar Estates:

Let's say you have a standard, static web site.  It has some great information, but it doesn't change with current news.

Here a link to the live site http://cheryljns.typepad.com/elma/ (Yes, I'm really crazy enough to have published it).

OK.  Let's say you also have a blog.  The blog constantly features new, current information.  You'd like to be able to display the same new current information on your web site without a lot of extra work.

So... You just paste the RSS-to-Javacript code into your web site, then every time you add something to the blog, a link to that new post will appear on your web site ... Like this

Here's the live link:  http://cheryljns.typepad.com/elma/el-mar-estates-yes-really.html

The blog feed is now intregrated into the web site.  Each time you publish a new blog post, the link to that new post will appear at the top of the list, and the oldest item will scroll off of the bottom of the list.

The RSS Feed showing here is from http://www.dablogmother.com/

RSS-TO-JAVASCRIPT

The other day, Justin posted a link to this super-great little tool:  The RSS-to-Javascript-Converter

If you missed it, go right now and try it out!

If you are not quite sure what it is and what it does ,,,, let me give another example.  Several Active Rain members have made Squidoo Lens

You know how one of the Squidoo modules is an option to insert an RSS feed into your Squidoo page ... like this

And when you add that module, links to your most recent blog posts will automatically show up on your Squidoo lens ... like this .....

Well, with that little RSS-TO-JAVACRIPT tool, you can add that same kind of feed "module" to any web page or blog page.

Just grab the URL or your blog's feed, for an Active Rain blog, just click on the clicklet near the bottom of the right column

For example, the URL for my Active Rain blog feed is http://activerain.com/blogs/cheryljns/rss

Enter the URL is the top box of the converter

Check the settings -- I went with 8 items in the list, no descriptions

Click Generate Javascript, and the convertor will create a little snippet of code that you can copy and paste into a web page.

Like this ....

This is so cool!  Thank you again, Justin!