What’s with the servers?
March 18th, 2006 by Sarah KingI’m working on a post on nofollows and created a couple of pages to test the concepts (therefore if you ever link to one page, could you link to both 
, alternatively just link to this post and let the user click through.)
So you have example 1 and example 2. Read the rest of this entry »
Using Magpie RSS
December 12th, 2005 by Sarah KingMagpie RSS is an RSS parser available free from SourceForge.
It consists of a handful of scripts which sit on your site and creates a cache file which needs to be chmod’d to 755 or 777 – you may need to use your FTP tool to do that – or Magpie may do it for you.
So, what do you need to do? Read the rest of this entry »
Adding RSS to your website
December 12th, 2005 by Sarah KingThis is the main page of a series (yet to be written) of How-To guides for adding RSS feeds to your website.
It’ll cover HTML and PHP scripted sites and all the tools will be free to use.
Why HTML? Well, some blogging systems and the Blogger sites don’t allow the user to add serverside scripts. Poop to them, but until they relax or allow some controlled way around it then those sites need to be treated as pure HTML.
| Method | Type | Cache | 3rd Party? | SEF | Score | Demo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magpie RSS | PHP | Yes | No | Yes | 10 | here |
| DOMIT! RSS | PHP | Yes | No | Yes | 5 | here |
| CaRP | PHP | Yes | No | Yes | 4 | here |
| SimplePie | PHP | Yes | No | Yes | 10 | here |
