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superchick
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject: Any good publishers for RSS feeds for my website |
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I have seen Feed for all but I don't know if it's going to jack my PC or not, and don't want to give it a try without any knowledge. Any ideas, or should I just get one for email and post what I see fit? I would like to add RSS feeds to this site for each city. It's not even close to complete, but you can get an idea of what I would use it for.
www.southeasthomecontractors.com
On a side note, if anyone can tell me how to get the left Jump Boxes to be uniform instead of jiggity jaggity without using Flash, I would appreciate it! Thanks!
*after this post it's probably time for a new donation for the site, huh? |
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poweRob
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject: Re: Any good publishers for RSS feeds for my website |
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superchick wrote: I have seen Feed for all but I don't know if it's going to jack my PC or not, and don't want to give it a try without any knowledge. Any ideas, or should I just get one for email and post what I see fit? I would like to add RSS feeds to this site for each city. It's not even close to complete, but you can get an idea of what I would use it for.
www.southeasthomecontractors.com
On a side note, if anyone can tell me how to get the left Jump Boxes to be uniform instead of jiggity jaggity without using Flash, I would appreciate it! Thanks!
*after this post it's probably time for a new donation for the site, huh?
Consider not using drop boxes or flash. Spiders have a hard time crawling that information and you don't want that to happen. The more text you have, the more information there is on your site, the more info that search engine spiders relate to your site.
I'm not sure what you want to do with RSS. If you want to post news from one site on your site, I simply use www.headlinedepot.com which is pretty self explanatory fill in the blank stuff but is quite adaptable.
If you know what you are doing, then us CaRP because spiders can't crawl RSS feeds from headline depot because they come in scripts. But with CaRP, spiders read the content of the stories and relate them to your site. Better search engine results. It's free open source stuff. |
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superchick
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| Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:24 pm Post subject: Re: Any good publishers for RSS feeds for my website |
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poweRob wrote: superchick wrote: I have seen Feed for all but I don't know if it's going to jack my PC or not, and don't want to give it a try without any knowledge. Any ideas, or should I just get one for email and post what I see fit? I would like to add RSS feeds to this site for each city. It's not even close to complete, but you can get an idea of what I would use it for.
www.southeasthomecontractors.com
On a side note, if anyone can tell me how to get the left Jump Boxes to be uniform instead of jiggity jaggity without using Flash, I would appreciate it! Thanks!
*after this post it's probably time for a new donation for the site, huh?
Consider not using drop boxes or flash. Spiders have a hard time crawling that information and you don't want that to happen. The more text you have, the more information there is on your site, the more info that search engine spiders relate to your site.
I'm not sure what you want to do with RSS. If you want to post news from one site on your site, I simply use www.headlinedepot.com which is pretty self explanatory fill in the blank stuff but is quite adaptable.
If you know what you are doing, then us CaRP because spiders can't crawl RSS feeds from headline depot because they come in scripts. But with CaRP, spiders read the content of the stories and relate them to your site. Better search engine results. It's free open source stuff.
Yay! Thanks I was looking for something that can be spidered. With RSS feeds it will keep the spiders coming back because there is new info, and I plan to have relevant info to the city and state, and then also have info revolving around home improvement info. I will try to figure out CaRP it's vital to my masterplan :twisted: . As far as the drop boxes, Im putting them on there for the end user, but also putting links for each section of my site for the spiders. The top part of the home page has the nav path I am planning to lay out for spidering. I have over 500 pages! Most of it is just frame work but I have a page dedicated in HTML for each city,state, and each menu for each type of contractor, and then a page with each city and contractor. Does that make sense? I didn't want to use drop boxes for that reason, (spidering) but the site just looked so crappy and jumbled and hard to navigate that I had to do something to simplify it. Sooo... I am trying to create 2 paths, one with drop boxes, and then other links that will list all the links on each page without drop boxes, depending on how you navigate. I don't know if that would be considered spamming though. Whats the dif between CaRP Koi, and CaRP evolution? |
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poweRob
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| Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:03 pm Post subject: Re: Any good publishers for RSS feeds for my website |
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superchick wrote: poweRob wrote: superchick wrote: I have seen Feed for all but I don't know if it's going to jack my PC or not, and don't want to give it a try without any knowledge. Any ideas, or should I just get one for email and post what I see fit? I would like to add RSS feeds to this site for each city. It's not even close to complete, but you can get an idea of what I would use it for.
www.southeasthomecontractors.com
On a side note, if anyone can tell me how to get the left Jump Boxes to be uniform instead of jiggity jaggity without using Flash, I would appreciate it! Thanks!
*after this post it's probably time for a new donation for the site, huh?
Consider not using drop boxes or flash. Spiders have a hard time crawling that information and you don't want that to happen. The more text you have, the more information there is on your site, the more info that search engine spiders relate to your site.
I'm not sure what you want to do with RSS. If you want to post news from one site on your site, I simply use www.headlinedepot.com which is pretty self explanatory fill in the blank stuff but is quite adaptable.
If you know what you are doing, then us CaRP because spiders can't crawl RSS feeds from headline depot because they come in scripts. But with CaRP, spiders read the content of the stories and relate them to your site. Better search engine results. It's free open source stuff.
Yay! Thanks I was looking for something that can be spidered. With RSS feeds it will keep the spiders coming back because there is new info, and I plan to have relevant info to the city and state, and then also have info revolving around home improvement info. I will try to figure out CaRP it's vital to my masterplan :twisted: . As far as the drop boxes, Im putting them on there for the end user, but also putting links for each section of my site for the spiders. The top part of the home page has the nav path I am planning to lay out for spidering. I have over 500 pages! Most of it is just frame work but I have a page dedicated in HTML for each city,state, and each menu for each type of contractor, and then a page with each city and contractor. Does that make sense? I didn't want to use drop boxes for that reason, (spidering) but the site just looked so crappy and jumbled and hard to navigate that I had to do something to simplify it. Sooo... I am trying to create 2 paths, one with drop boxes, and then other links that will list all the links on each page without drop boxes, depending on how you navigate. I don't know if that would be considered spamming though. Whats the dif between CaRP Koi, and CaRP evolution?
Not sure. You might want to consider a complete CMS (content management system) site. Much easier to manage and you can ad and remove features quite easily. INcluding RSS.
The Open source CMS out there that is really cool is called Mambo. You will be major-leage impressed when using it. A friend of mine is using it and has just cracked the surface of its abilities. Check it out.
The writers of Mambo actually split off in a tiff apparently and started their own CMS project as well called Joomla. Give that one a look too because it looks pretty strong and adaptable.
If you set up a CMS website, interface and design will be much less of a hassle and you can focus on functionality and things you want to provide, which usually come with the system that you can just turn on. Then you can just screw with the style sheets for appearances. OR if you like I'm sure there are different CMS skins that are being made all the time for download. |
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poweRob
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super...
If you decide to go the CMS route, you'll need to have Apache server, PHP, & MySQL installed on your computer. Sounds like a hassle don't it?
Fortunately:
WAMP
These guys have built a stack that puts them all together with an installer. |
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superchick
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poweRob wrote: super...
If you decide to go the CMS route, you'll need to have Apache server, PHP, & MySQL installed on your computer. Sounds like a hassle don't it?
Fortunately:
WAMP
These guys have built a stack that puts them all together with an installer.
Ahhh ahh! I spent all weekend trying to figure out how to get that to work on my PC. It was terrible. You know when you get so pissed you want to cry and throw stuff and have tantrums. That was me. |
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poweRob
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superchick wrote: poweRob wrote: super...
If you decide to go the CMS route, you'll need to have Apache server, PHP, & MySQL installed on your computer. Sounds like a hassle don't it?
Fortunately:
WAMP
These guys have built a stack that puts them all together with an installer.
Ahhh ahh! I spent all weekend trying to figure out how to get that to work on my PC. It was terrible. You know when you get so pissed you want to cry and throw stuff and have tantrums. That was me.
Keep me informed on how that goes. I'm think of screwing around with it myself just to try. |
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superchick
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| I think that WAMP is above my head, but I did find rss.icerocket.com I think this maybe more my speed for now. We will see. Ok, I know why nothing was working for me now, MY SERVER WAS WINDOWS BASED! PHP is not going to run on it, duh!!! It slipped my mind, but I was so pissed and frustrated, although I had mySQL for my database avail so I thought I could figure it out, but I couldn't. |
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poweRob
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superchick wrote: I think that WAMP is above my head, but I did find rss.icerocket.com I think this maybe more my speed for now. We will see. Ok, I know why nothing was working for me now, MY SERVER WAS WINDOWS BASED! PHP is not going to run on it, duh!!! It slipped my mind, but I was so pissed and frustrated, although I had mySQL for my database avail so I thought I could figure it out, but I couldn't.
WAMP is super easy, It comes with a windows installer. Click and follow the instructions. You have to make sure your server isn't running Windows IIS which unless you turned it on, it shouldn't be.
WAMP is Windows, Apache Server, mySQL (database), and the "P" is for Perl, PHP & Python.
It's just the backdrop which needs to be there for your CMS to run on. Then you install Joomla or Mambo and they attach themselves to the database in the WAMP you installed. |
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superchick
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| OMG! I nearlly peed my pants while poking around the hosting manager I found Mambo, Postnuke, Xoops, and a whole host of others, just there for the clicking. I heard go daddy s*cks, and I was really considering switching, but for the beginner like myself, Im loving them. I called them at 1:30 EST last night trying to figure out how to setup a DB in MySQL. ( I had no freakin idea and got stuck Table) |
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