A quick search on Google came up with this free service to intelligently parse an RSS feed into a javascript feed.
You don’t have full control of the layout but for most of us it will be more than enough.
- Go to the Convert a Feed page and enter in the feed name and set some of the values that you want, in our case the number of items and no description.
- Click on the Generate JavaScript button – a new window will pop up
- Decide which page you want to add the feed to and open the appropriate file in your favourite editor (mine is Zend).
- Add these lines to the file, save and upload![html]
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Personally I thought they were a bit greedy by having 2 links into their site, but only one is SEF and they do deserve some payback for providing the service 🙂
Hi Sara,
Going through some of your post – quite refreshing after reading all those SEO/SEM blogs 🙂
I have wrote about similar service way back in July’05 a thttp://www.ibsteam.net/web-development/rssxml-feeds-into-javascript-never-was-easier.html The actual service is Feed2JS http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/ – I thought it was pretty simple, plus you can apply CSS to their code. Check it out.
Recently I noticed a google backlink to my own site from theirs – that actually was the example page that I generated with their tool just to check it out. So, now it counts like a link from EDU site 🙂 Kinda double benefit 😉