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Web Design through RSS?

elraverelraver AccrametronLos AngelesRegistered User regular
edited February 2011 in Help / Advice Forum
Hello, folks. In particular the web coding/design sect.

I do some semi-pro web design and make some decent money and trade in services from it.

I've come across a problem however and I know that the way Penny Arcade seems to work looks like a potential solution.

I'm entirely new to RSS. Have never really tried working with it.

I was wondering if I could basically post to an RSS feed, and have that populate a webpage?

So, I could post something to the RSS and whatever content is there would appear (with whatever formatting I wish to apply) in a particular section of a webpage for that day until the next RSS posting is done, ala the look of Penny Arcade's news posts?

Thoughts on how this would work or redirection to where I should look are highly appreciated.

-Elraver

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  • admanbadmanb unionize your workplace Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    That... would work, but you do know that RSS is designed to work the other way, right? You post something to your news feed and also syndicate it to an RSS feed for external readers.

    What are you trying to do?

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  • SeguerSeguer of the Void Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    elraver, generally you'd find that you make a post somewhere, which is syndicated to rss.

    You can use this rss feed to populate another website, however.

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Wouldnt this work better with one XML sheet that you can pull from to make a RSS feed and use XSLT to make an actual web page?

    Can't you run both off one XML core file with the actual information nested?

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  • elraverelraver Accrametron Los AngelesRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    That does make more sense Prime. Basically I'm creating a website for someone who isn't very tech-savy who wants a Blog-like atmosphere contained within only a portion of the front page of a site surrounded by other content.

    Still, I am curious as to how Penny Arcade accomplishes their posts. Everything is so uniform and consistent with their format I almost picture it being posted through use of something similar to a LiveJournal posting client.

    Anyways, I'll probably stick to populating content from XML for now unless I can find something a little more user-friendly for the client.

    -Elraver

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  • HoundxHoundx Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Just use something like Wordpress or Joomla!. They can be tweaked to display pages in exactly that type of format and there are a variety of ways to make posting new blog entries easy - iphones apps, etc.

    This blog and this one are both Joomla!

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    You're talking about XSLT and XSLT sucks. But it's the only way of doing what you are describing without server technology.

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  • MagicPrimeMagicPrime FiresideWizard Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I wholely support the use of Joomla.

    1.6 is niiiice, and the extension database is being updated all the time with 1.6 extensions. And if you know basic .php and css you can customize and create your templates pretty easy like.

    I run this site with Joomla 1.5

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  • wmelonwmelon Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    MagicPrime wrote: »
    I wholely support the use of Joomla.

    1.6 is niiiice, and the extension database is being updated all the time with 1.6 extensions. And if you know basic .php and css you can customize and create your templates pretty easy like.

    I run this site with Joomla 1.5

    Drupal 7 is also quite nice.

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  • JacksWastedLifeJacksWastedLife Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    And if you want Drupal 7 made easy, Drupal Gardens is a nice free managed solution

    This shows a bunch of the neater sites

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  • admanbadmanb unionize your workplace Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    elraver wrote: »
    That does make more sense Prime. Basically I'm creating a website for someone who isn't very tech-savy who wants a Blog-like atmosphere contained within only a portion of the front page of a site surrounded by other content.

    Still, I am curious as to how Penny Arcade accomplishes their posts. Everything is so uniform and consistent with their format I almost picture it being posted through use of something similar to a LiveJournal posting client.

    Wikipedia or Google "Content Management System" (CMS). Your curiosity will be relieved.

    Most of the Internet is built on CMSs.

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  • elraverelraver Accrametron Los AngelesRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    MagicPrime wrote: »
    I wholely support the use of Joomla.

    1.6 is niiiice, and the extension database is being updated all the time with 1.6 extensions. And if you know basic .php and css you can customize and create your templates pretty easy like.

    I run this site with Joomla 1.5

    Thank you so much everyone.

    In particular, Joomla (based on that Marietta site) looks pretty damn close to what I'm looking to accomplish. I'm more comfortable with php than css, but I've never met a language I couldn't learn well enough to be dangerous. :)

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