Friday, May 30, 2008

Problems

So, I've had a couple of problems with making this site for class and its all to do with RSS. First problem is I can't get the feed from my blogger to load into my site properly, and since I've been using Dreamweaver, the only way I can seem to get it to work is to use XSL and PHP, and I'm pretty sure the CSU webspace won't let you load PHP, besides I suck at PHP anyways. Had the same problem with iWeb, couldn't find any sort of solution to that one on Google... guess I'll keep working on it and hope for the best.

Second problem involves posting a feed from the site to my blogger. Dreamweaver is great, but it doesn't write RSS feeds for you, so I had a bit of a look at how to write an RSS feed and publish it, which seems kind of hard. But yeah, it seems kind of pointless learning it now since I'm not really posting news items or blogs on my site, meaning there would be nothing in the feed. This problem is also present in iWeb, sort of anyways. iWeb will generate an RSS feed for you automatically, but it only does it when you're using the 'blog' template, so again, kind of pointless... maybe its different in iWeb 08 as I'm only using 07.

Meh, the site is here... if anyone cares. (yes, it uses javascript since I couldn't have been bothered to open Flash)

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