the FF extention to use is Sage: http://blackkats4-1.blogspot.com/atom.xml there are two on the page Sage and wizz. I recommend sage very user friendly...

here is my blog
http://blackkats4.blogspot.com/atom.xml

here is your forum Phill :
http://www.network54.com/Forum/135448?xml=rss

and your ed:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/263841?xml=rss

They look so different in RSS...lol this is fun...New toy...Like I need something else on my plate. NOT!!!!


Kitty, KD, Blackkats4, Cindy
East Texas, 50 miles north of Houston
Ducks and Geese

have been tested (the rss thingy) with different rss-readers - but hopelessly stuck with my Thunderbird, which is the best opinion for my taste...
You probably know my attempt to explain rss for noobs? http://www.rattarium.net/Network54/rss.htm

Reference Linklist greetz Ed

it is not the prettiest thing out there but it is convenent. I, as you know will not let an e-mail client sit on my machine so Thunderbird is not an option for me.

Love Mac's, both of them, post down below... about time we had some features that IE doesnot....LOL Hail! FIREFOX.....Long Live FF..

I really don't know much about Rss but all the reading really confused me till I sat down and just did it. Still trying out how to do a rss page. looks really simple. LOL but for now it is great for just peeking in real quick. instead of having to open the whole website. LOL




Kitty, KD, Blackkats4, Cindy
East Texas, 50 miles north of Houston
Ducks and Geese

Hi folks,

I think Ed is aware of what I did with the RSS feeds for our forums, as I was describing it to Mac (the first one) in the N54 Admin forum...

His question was:

Quote: So RSS is useless and meaningless to IE users? I read Ed Homes tutorial. Full of references to firefox and other stuff I am not familiar with. I have Microsoft Internet Explorer and I never use AOL, Yahoo, or any other chat-type connection. But I have a home page with links to forums. Am I correct in assuming that the RSS link is meaningless in my environment and cannot be used in any way and thus should be totally ignored...?

To which I responded:

Quote: Here's what we've done with it on our forums, we've set up the RSS feeds through 3rd parties that convert the feeds to JavaScript that then can be placed on any html page to display the feed data without any additional aggregator/reader, this is great for fans of our forums, and related sites etc, as they can then have - on their own sites - an automatically updated display of the 15 latest threads on our forums, with links that click through to the forum threads themselves, regardless of browser or RSS or anything, as long as the browser can handle javascript (virtually all of them anymore).

Check it out on our demo page:
http://www.network54.com/Realm/datadump/rss/index.html

The list version is generated by http://www.bigbold.com/rssdigest/

The scroller is from http://www.rss-to-javascript.com , but the majority of our users seem to prefer the straight up list as opposed to the flashy scroller (I'm inclined to agree)

In any case there are many uses for RSS. In my opinion, distributing it (as above) to users to promote your forum is most useful of all... and offering it up in such a way as this, so that no aggregator is required, and even IE users with no built in reader can all receive the feed with nothing but javascript enabled, makes RSS much more "accessible" to all the folks you might like to attract to your forum.

Just thought I'd mention it, since the RSS topic came up.

Peace, -Mac (the other one)