Is there a way to format an RSS feed to look like an event listing and have it come in looking like the event listings on www.afterdarkentertainment.com
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Do you have a link to the RSS feed you want to reformat? This is something that the ReadFeed Action was pretty much made for, but that Action is fairly choosy about which feed formats it will consume. Feed2JS is more forgiving of input formats, but you would have to live with the fixed choices of which feed elements it shows. (Headline, Link, optional Description, optional date posted.)
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Seeing that action made me think of this idea … 
That brings up a second question… Where can I make an RSS feed that then I can design like the one mentioned
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Do you have a link to the RSS feed you want to reformat? This is something that the ReadFeed Action was pretty much made for, but that Action is fairly choosy about which feed formats it will consume. Feed2JS is more forgiving of input formats, but you would have to live with the fixed choices of which feed elements it shows. (Headline, Link, optional Description, optional date posted.)
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I like both!
but where should I build an rss feed? WOuld I do it in wordpress or blogger? - can I put it in a sub folder? and have i point from there?
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Do you have a link to the RSS feed you want to reformat? This is something that the ReadFeed Action was pretty much made for, but that Action is fairly choosy about which feed formats it will consume. Feed2JS is more forgiving of input formats, but you would have to live with the fixed choices of which feed elements it shows. (Headline, Link, optional Description, optional date posted.)
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so could I do a blank freeway site - design all the inputs and then use the simple rss feed action upload into a folder (yoursite.com/rss)
then on the main site used the read feed action and point the rss feed to the main site ?
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I like both!
but where should I build an rss feed? WOuld I do it in wordpress or blogger? - can I put it in a sub folder? and have i point from there?
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Do you have a link to the RSS feed you want to reformat? This is something that the ReadFeed Action was pretty much made for, but that Action is fairly choosy about which feed formats it will consume. Feed2JS is more forgiving of input formats, but you would have to live with the fixed choices of which feed elements it shows. (Headline, Link, optional Description, optional date posted.)
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Yes, I suppose you could. But why? What would that gain you over formatting the dates in your page directly? The reason for these RSS feed re-posters is so you can consume someone else’s feed – take advantage of their labor – and format it as part of your site. If you’re generating the feed, then there’s no reason at all to jump through all of those hoops.
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so could I do a blank freeway site - design all the inputs and then use the simple rss feed action upload into a folder (yoursite.com/rss)
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I agree…
He wants these events Facebook / twitter shareable … Want the feed to be posted on the fb page … Very social network mergable… And I am trying to figure out the best ways to do this in freeway
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Yes, I suppose you could. But why? What would that gain you over formatting the dates in your page directly? The reason for these RSS feed re-posters is so you can consume someone else’s feed – take advantage of their labor – and format it as part of your site. If you’re generating the feed, then there’s no reason at all to jump through all of those hoops.
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If you look at the site I posted originally … My client wants very similar but custom design to it
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Yes, I suppose you could. But why? What would that gain you over formatting the dates in your page directly? The reason for these RSS feed re-posters is so you can consume someone else’s feed – take advantage of their labor – and format it as part of your site. If you’re generating the feed, then there’s no reason at all to jump through all of those hoops.
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Walter,
I did not see this post for some reason:
He wants these events Facebook / twitter shareable … Want the feed to be posted on the fb page … Very social network mergable… And I am trying to figure out the best ways to do this in freeway
Thanks!
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Please check that link – that goes to a squatter page.
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I am not sure you are going to be able to set up this level of complexity using the RSS feed. This is a WordPress site, and although I don’t recognize the layout enough to say which plug-in is being used to create it, I suspect that this concert calendar is coming from a plug-in.
I don’t see a feed for this site that is specific to the concert calendar, so it might be just the entire page that is getting posted. If that was all there was on the page, then that would work, but this page has lots of other news as well.
What I would do here is write a little custom application in PHP to manage the concert schedule and publish the upcoming events as HTML and RSS at each page request. There would be a client-friendly control panel where you could upload a photo, set all the date/time/ages/link to band’s sites… stuff as a form, and the rest would happen automatically. Passed concerts would drop off, you could set a window forward in time, so really far future stuff wouldn’t show until it was within a couple of months, say; all of that is within the realm of a day or two of work. The idea here is that you invest the time up front, and then you don’t have to make these little changes one at a time later.
You might want to look around at HotScripts to see if someone has already written one of these – odds are really great that you will find many. Your chore then would be to evaluate them for features and suitability, and to figure out how to style it to match the rest of your site. That latter part will be the larger chore, I fear.
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Walter,
I did not see this post for some reason:http://www.afterdarkpresents.com
He wants these events Facebook / twitter shareable … Want the feed to be posted on the fb page … Very social network mergable… And I am trying to figure out the best ways to do this in freeway
Thanks!
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