the web is littered with non-technical explanations/tutorials on rss and feedburner.. and i've searched fruitlessly for a very-technical explanation/tutorial on rss and feedburner and feedblitz and how to build an aggregator etc.. so i was wondering does anyone have a link to a good technical-explanation..
World Wide Web Consortium on RSS: http://feed2.w3.org/docs/rss2.html
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I wanted to import this as an RSS feed on my website http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/yoga/ but it is not an RSS feed.
Huffington post does have RSS feeds but they are so broad. I want one just about yoga. I see there are sites that do it but you have to pay for it.
I just want to get the title, small description, and link back url like most rss feeds.
As of 2021 rss.app seems to be quite comperensive service for transforming websites to rss feeds: https://rss.app/
Deprecated information:
I tried a few services and the best results (=ease of use and good
looking rss feed) I got with Kimono. They
support JSON, CSV and
RSS results or you can
embed the feed
on your site and they even have a Wordpress
plugin. Here is the API
feed I created if you want to try (requires login):
https://www.kimonolabs.com/apis/3qhk4fyq
Other services that I quickly tried are Feed43
and Page2rss. Those seem usable, but also a
bit difficult to use or limited in features.
Superfeedr also allows
subscribing to
html elements, but requires more skill to get something working out of
it.
All of those services are free or offer free plans with limited features.
I am planning to build a website completely in Flex. All the contents will be static. No DB will be used. Unfortunately I am not building the website for PUMA or NIKE and so SEO is important. There is an overwhelming and confusing information out there about Flex and SEO.
The following is a piece of information I found on the web
" FLEX( Flash ) uses XML as a primary source of content, and XHTML is just a custom XML. The idea is to to use the HTML pages as XML content for the FLEX( Flash ) application. The XML can be read and indexed by the search engines, and it’s also the ideal content source for your FLEX( Flash ) application.' It goes on to explain how this can be done. Is this really that simple. "
Could someone give some credible links. SEO is important for me.
If I'm really worried about SEO, I'm not building my site using Flex, Flash or Silverlight. A large part of SEO comes from the search engines crawling the content on your site's pages and analyzing the links into and out of your site. When you create a site using Flash or Silverlight, you're making it a lot harder for search engines to crawl your content.
If you're determined to use Flex for your website, I would recommend reading:
Revisiting Deep Linking with Flex from Jonathon Campos's blog
How to make your hot new RIA friendly to search engines from Josh Tynjala
Search Engine Optimization Technology Center by Adobe Developer Connection (Lots of resources here)
You'll also want to make your URLs as SEO friendly as possible (ex. http://www.yoursite.com/articles/my-article-about-flex/).
I have been tasked with creating a infosite for people with varying degrees of learning difficulty.
I was wondering if anyone knew of any really good guides, tutorials or places to get advice regarding the issue.
In addition to resources mentioned in other answers, here are some that I refer to:
The W3C's Web Accessibility home page: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Jim Thatcher's tutorial: http://jimthatcher.com/webcourse1.htm
Gez Lemon's blog: http://juicystudio.com/index.php
University of Illinois HTML best practices: http://html.cita.illinois.edu/
Each of these contains links to other useful resources as well.
This is a great resource; the one I refer to for sites I create.
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/
The CEUD (here in Ireland) has actually got some excellent resources for accessibility in ICT. It's well worth a look for any developer.
Good overview here:
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/cognitive-disability-learning-difficulty/
For web applications, my favorite "killer site" is the WebAIM site. (http://webaim.org/) I drew on their site heavily while creating the accessibilty guidelines we use at my current organization.
Things I really like about WebAIM: They have created the "WAVE toolbar," an automated tool for checking your website for basic accessibility issues. They periodically do a screen reader usage survey-- I've found no one else that has comparable data compiled over a number of years. They have simplified versions of official accessibility checklists. They are located at a University and are constanty testing and updating their guidelines.
Assuming the following:
You have some content currently being displayed in an ASP.NET HTML table.
You want to use Silverlight for a better user experience.
It is important that the information be indexed in Google, et al.
What do you do? I know that XAP (Silverlight executables) contain XAML which could theoretically be indexed. But will Google do this? And if so, when? And what if the data being served up is not in the XAML (perhaps it is stored as a resource)?
My first thought is to try to detect search engines and serve up the HTML table. But my limited understanding of SEO makes me wonder whether Google would frown on this practice and possibly black-list the site. And I am not sure how reliable it is to try to detect the search engines anyway.
Is there a definitive correct way to do this which won't get you in trouble with Google?
Search engine optmization is possible in silver light go thru the following link
SEO
This is an excellent article with a slide-show on 'Search Engine Friendly Silverlight Applications' from a Software Architect at Microsoft :
http://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=200
This MSDN blog post on 'Simple Silverlight SEO with ASP.Net and XSLT' will also be of interest :
http://blogs.msdn.com/synergist/archive/2007/10/03/simple-silverlight-seo-with-asp-net-and-xslt.aspx
Progressive Enhancement. Use the basic HTML table. Use JavaScript to replace the table with the richer interface.
Since Silverlight is still verey limited in browser/OS support, I'd advise to steer clear of it for public webpages, or at least provider traditional alternatives as well, which will then be indexable by search engines.
...Yes I've seen:
Best Resources for Learning JavaFX?
but it doesn't really answer the question. Maybe there just aren't any good resources at the moment?
UPDATE:
http://developers.sun.com/rss/javafx.xml is OK
If you have Google Reader you could use their Discover tool to find feeds, e.g. JavaFX feeds.
Technorati has a large selection
Google Blog Search also has some results.
Note that I don't even know what JavaFX is - your best bet, as with any topic, is to use the social search tools out there to find authors who write about your particular topic, and then subscribe to them if you like what you read.
Something I've taken to recently is using Google Alerts and Google Reader (any RSS reader will do) to get reports as they come in of searches for a particular topic. You get access to what people are searching for within a topic and what they eventually decide on. I've discovered a few interesting pages on PHP since I started this, it's a useful tool.