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Recently I have been working on a website of my own and wanted to display my joeuser blog on the site to pad my sites content and started to do just that,I replicated my blog and soon discovered that this was not really what I wanted so started surfing looking for some app that would help me do that.
So long story short I stumbled across www.feedburner.com
This is a site that you should visit (note:link is not affiliated) The site offers a free service and a "pro" service and allows you to add the animated buttons you see below. This has allowed me to add JU to my site without stealing any bandwidth. It also makes for a cool sig for my forum posts on other sites (directing traffic to my blog) and I added a "subscribe to this blog" xml button allowing visitors to my site to put me on their desktop. Sound a bit egotistical to you ( it did to me ) but I found that after posting the xml feed on my site joey and as it is a work in progress continued working on my "bottom of the page navigation headache" I found that after 6 hours 2 people had subscribed to my blog feed.
I was shocked and amazed (I suspected my dad had subscribed but after investigating he had not ) wow wow and double wow, I dont really class myself as any kind of writer but what some body does!!
I spent the next 4 hours polishing my new bottom of the page navigation because hey if they took the trouble to read what I write and they had to be 2 out of the 4 hits I got on my site yesterday and if they return I wanted a bit more content to display.
I have gone through the whole "have to get a site and display links to shonky sites to make heaps of cash" thing and am slowly developing my own style without sending people to crap sites that ruin anything that I was tring to achive, hey I did not know what that really was,still dont but it's a long learning curve that I am at the very start of it's seemingly steep incline.

There you have it. What a powerful tool. and for me inspiration to do better,blog better and speak better than I used to did.


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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
There's also an RSS feed button at the top of each blog here at JU that allows you to post an RSS feed of your blog.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
That is true but can you use that feed button on your own site ?
And can you use that same button to display your JU blog headlines on other sites and forums ?
You've got to admitt its a pretty cool wee button.
and when I figure out how to make it all happen by myself then their logo gets replaced by mine and I can do what they are doing (theoretically)piers2cents
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Great stuff ...thanks!

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Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
no worries mate
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Oh, no, it's cool, don't get me wrong. The button I mention isn't a button per se. An RSS feed is a list of headlines like you see on many sites. You link that list to your site, and a list of your current headlines here appears there. You'll jsut need a script on your site that parses the xml feed.

Maybe you've seen sites that have, say, an up to date list of headlines from slashdot as a submenu? Same thing, except the link on the RSS button points to your blog.

Click the rss button and see, you get an xml feed of your headlines.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
http://piers38.joeuser.com/rss/piers38_rss.xml
so if I link to this adress ( rss button ) how do I get it to display on my own site do I need and special code's ?
This is something I am interested in doing so any help here is much appreciated
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
I am really looking for a ticker type display to scroll across the top of my site
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
You could have it display any way you like. All you need is a script that parses your xml file according to the nested tags, and places the information in variables you can use. There are tons of pre-made xml/rss scripts out there.

Once you parse your feed to the variables, you could spit the variables out to your JS ticker or whatever means you like. I think they even have Flash based RSS feed scripts. I use PHP to parse xml, though I haven't bothered with a site of my own for some time.