Including an RSS feed on your site

Here's a really cool way of including an RSS feed on your site, care of the Unofficial TypePad Resources blog.

David Carter-Tod at Wytheville Community College has created a tool that generates a Javascript script that can be put onto any website. This script displays the contents of an RSS feed with a number of formatting options to allow you to display the feed the way you want. For an example of what it can look like have a look here (Right-hand side under the RSS Feeds heading). This is a great program, provided free of charge, that anyone with a website can use.

If you are comfortable with editing HTML & Javascript tags then dive right in. The Wytheville Community College page gives you instructions on what the code you need is.

For those less familiar with hand-coding pages, I have a tool that provided a limited set of functions for the Wytheville Community College script. There are seven options for this: the location of the RSS feed, the number of items to display, whether or not to display the description of the items, whether the links should open in a new window and whether or not to display the feed title, datestamp & description. There are many other options available, but these are the only ones I've gotten around to including. If people want others, then you'll have to do it by hand. (If people ask reeaally nicely, I may consider including some others)