New/headlines syndication

[Spinethetic]

Is it possible to just configure an XML file for my visitors to do this without me learning PHP and all that? If so could somebody type a quick idea of how it would be set up?

[ddadmin]

Well, the easiest way for your visitors to be able to display the contents of your rss feeds on their sites without additional work is to use a RSS to JavaScript converter service. For example, http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/

[Spinethetic]

That is a good link and I just bookmarked it for later. But what I mean is for my website, it is just HTML and I would like to create an xml file with the news article links and the title of each article. I am completely new to syndication and maybe I'am getting in over my head as I am just an interface designer with HTML/CSS knowledge and just a smattering of Javascript and Actionscript/Flash to get by.

[Spinethetic]

I could use that above link once I get an xml file on my server to generate the javascript code and basically just say "Paste this code somewhere in your website to syndicate our headlines" yadda yadda yadda.

[ddadmin]

Well I'm not aware of any script that parses regular HTML and turns it into a RSS feed, since no script can know what portion of the page should and shouldn't be part of the RSS. RSS does stand for Really Simple Syndication, so it's very easy to learn the basic format. I recommend just looking at the source of any RSS feeds, try and mimic it exactly, then make sure it's valid, by running it through the RSS validator. That's all you need to create a RSS feed for your site, manually of course.

[Spinethetic]

Yeah thats what I figured. Since I just copy articles to the forum and make links to the articles from the pages I would just make the XML file by hand as I update the site. Thank you much for the help, especially with that excellent link.

Best Regards
~SPINE