Need Advice for racketboy.com launch

[racketboy]

I finally got around to getting a new domain and hosting account from godaddy.com

racketboy.com will be availible soon and will, for now, just complement my Blogger blog, not replace it.

I've done web stuff before, but never on my own server with my own content.

So... I'll be posting here with my semi-newbie questions.

First... is there a way to have the headlines of my newest blog posts be displayed on my new website via an ATOM feed?

 

[Mask of Destiny]

Well I haven't paid much attention to RSS/ATOM, but from what I understand of it, what you ask should be possible.

I *think* that RSS/ATOM are pull standards like e-mail so effectively you need to get your website to poll the ATOM feed for updates. If your webhost allows you to add cron jobs, you could set up a cron job that runs a PHP script to check the feed every X minutes. If your host doesn't support cron jobs you could add a little php to the top of the page displaying the headlines that keeps track of how many minutes it's been since the last feed update and if it's been more than X minutes, it updates.

It wouldn't surprise me if there's software to do this already.

 

[racketboy]

Hey, I think I found a place that does this:

http://www.feeddigest.com

Thanks!

 

[racketboy]

Originally posted by racketboy@Sun, 2005-10-23 @ 11:33 PM

Hey, I think I found a place that does this:

http://www.feeddigest.com

Thanks!

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well the service works well, but it's a little slow.

so if anybody has any other recommendations, let me know

 

[RockinB]

Racketboy, on your website, only blogger can post feeback. That's a pitty, some months ago, I could post a comment, but now I can't. Can you change this?

 

[racketboy]

Originally posted by Rockin'-B@Mon, 2005-10-24 @ 04:54 PM

Racketboy, on your website, only blogger can post feeback. That's a pitty, some months ago, I could post a comment, but now I can't. Can you change this?

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I changed it because I get a LOT of spam if I don't.

It's really a shame.

Now they have a character verfication thing -- so maybe that will take care of it...

 

[racketboy]

http://www.racketboy.com is up now

not fully functional, but you can get the main idea of the design

I'd love to hear comments -- but keep in mind, I've only been working on it for like a couple days

 

[dibz]

If you're ever looking for webhosting, *plug* Site5 lets you have cron jobs as well as Fantastico (install wordpress etc for you)... 🙂

 

[racketboy]

thanks for the offer, but I already signed up for 2 years at godaddy...

How much do they run ($) though?

 

[dibz]

Depends on what you want, if you want the absolute cheapest with 5 pointers and unlimited parked I think its like $12/month if you just go by month to month. The Multisite Express package is killer, best way is to check out http://www.site5.com.