RSS Feeds R Us

I spent a couple of hours getting my head around RSS feeds yesterday and found that they weren't the 5 headed beast I thought they might be. In fact a quick search of google and I found a simple RSS to html php script that made it all very easy.

I used the script to test displaying 3 RSS feeds on a web page.

• The Register RSS Feed with first paragraph displaying the first 5 results.
• BBC Technology News RSS Feed displaying top 3 results.
• Feed from my personal blog.

The only issue I found was with the RSS feed from my own blog. Although in the settings section of Blogger you can choose between "Full" and "Short" for the descriptions of each article in the RSS feed, I found this to not make any difference. I'll investigate further when I have time and let you know my findings.

Anyway the idea is that this week we'll use the same method to pump fresh relevant content into the web site design section of our site and our Free ISP.