News tickers/RSS...

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Fred King

Hi all

Does anyone know of any RSS thingys outthere that can be
used on a website - hopefully with out too much
advertising, and of course, I'd love it to be free!

Thanks in advance for the help...

fred.
 
M

MD Websunlimited

Hi Fred,

Check out MSN, then have several RSS "thingys" that are out there.
 
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Fred king

Thanks for the reply, I've had a good look around msn, but
found the same as on google (just less useful!) - that
pretty much all the RSS tools are desktop based or fee
based, and my budget is £0! I'm doing this for a school,
so money is a small object...not to mention distant....

Any other ideas? I know it is a very long shot though!

Thankyou!
Fred

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Hi Fred,

Check out MSN, then have several RSS "thingys" that are out there.
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Mike -- FrontPage MVP '09 - '02
http://www.websunlimited.com


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Tom Gahagan

Hi Fred....

First thing I would do is check with your hosting company to see if they
will even allow it. Many will not, as I found out when I had a similar idea
for one of my pages and after thinking it through I could understand why
they were not thrilled with the idea.

Now if you want to syndicate the schools site content or portions of it for
others to get with an rss reader that is do-able but I'm just not sure it is
going to be possible to have an online rss reader as it would be pretty
resource intensive. Of course, that opinion just might be wrong! :)

What is stopping the school from deploying one of the many free readers on
their desktops?

Best to you.....
Tom Gahagan
eThomaston.com

Thanks for the reply, I've had a good look around msn, but
found the same as on google (just less useful!) - that
pretty much all the RSS tools are desktop based or fee
based, and my budget is £0! I'm doing this for a school,
so money is a small object...not to mention distant....

Any other ideas? I know it is a very long shot though!

Thankyou!
Fred

-----Original Message-----
Hi Fred,

Check out MSN, then have several RSS "thingys" that are out there.
--
Mike -- FrontPage MVP '09 - '02
http://www.websunlimited.com


"Fred King" <very_fat@microsoft_bloatpage2002.com> wrote
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in message news:[email protected]...
 
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Fred King

Thanks for the reply - lots more thought in that than many
of the posts up here...

The problem is the way I explained it. I'm trying to do
this for an Intranet, so purely internal, on one of our
own servers, but I don't know if RSS is the right thing
for it really.
What I'd like is to have some sort of little
ticker/scroller on the top of the page that will update
with xml/rss stuff from sites like http://news.bbc.co.uk/.
as up to now, I've updated a Javascript ticker manually
which is very time consuming.

I'm after something like the ticker at the top of the BBC
UK News page that gives the latest news info.

Is RSS what I'm actually in need of or am I barking up the
wrong tree?

Thankyou!

Fred
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Have you considered contacting the webmaster of the BBC UK News page?

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FrontPage Resources, WebCircle,
MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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Thanks for the reply - lots more thought in that than many
of the posts up here...

The problem is the way I explained it. I'm trying to do
this for an Intranet, so purely internal, on one of our
own servers, but I don't know if RSS is the right thing
for it really.
What I'd like is to have some sort of little
ticker/scroller on the top of the page that will update
with xml/rss stuff from sites like http://news.bbc.co.uk/.
as up to now, I've updated a Javascript ticker manually
which is very time consuming.

I'm after something like the ticker at the top of the BBC
UK News page that gives the latest news info.

Is RSS what I'm actually in need of or am I barking up the
wrong tree?

Thankyou!

Fred
 
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Tom Gahagan

Hi Fred.....

Thomas's suggestion might be a good one. At least you will know how they do
it and it what you want is news from all around... that might be the best
bet.

Off the top of my head.... if it were me working on this......and I was
wanting to have my schools news on a ticker.......... I would look around
for some sort of ticker script that works off a database file. Then it would
just be, perhaps, a matter of adding and deleting records to the database
file and letting the ticker show them.

I would bet that if you look around in some of the script and java script
sites you can find something pretty close to what you need. Then you could
just update the database yourself with the schools news. You might even be
adventurous and create your own interface for adding and deleting items.
( ? ) :)

(my motto is never to re-invent the wheel!!!!)

Short of that..... you could code it yourself... if you are so inclined! <
vbg >

Best to you......
Tom Gahagan
eThomaston.com

Thanks for the reply - lots more thought in that than many
of the posts up here...

The problem is the way I explained it. I'm trying to do
this for an Intranet, so purely internal, on one of our
own servers, but I don't know if RSS is the right thing
for it really.
What I'd like is to have some sort of little
ticker/scroller on the top of the page that will update
with xml/rss stuff from sites like http://news.bbc.co.uk/.
as up to now, I've updated a Javascript ticker manually
which is very time consuming.

I'm after something like the ticker at the top of the BBC
UK News page that gives the latest news info.

Is RSS what I'm actually in need of or am I barking up the
wrong tree?

Thankyou!

Fred
 
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Tom Gahagan

Also... check out.....

Creating an Online RSS News Aggregator with ASP.NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...n-us/dnaspp/html/aspnet-createrssw-aspnet.asp

(watch wrapping of link)

Creating RSS files for your Web site
http://www.webreference.com/xml/column13/

Best to you.......
Tom Gahagan
eThomaston.com


Thanks for the reply - lots more thought in that than many
of the posts up here...

The problem is the way I explained it. I'm trying to do
this for an Intranet, so purely internal, on one of our
own servers, but I don't know if RSS is the right thing
for it really.
What I'd like is to have some sort of little
ticker/scroller on the top of the page that will update
with xml/rss stuff from sites like http://news.bbc.co.uk/.
as up to now, I've updated a Javascript ticker manually
which is very time consuming.

I'm after something like the ticker at the top of the BBC
UK News page that gives the latest news info.

Is RSS what I'm actually in need of or am I barking up the
wrong tree?

Thankyou!

Fred
 
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