Another Way To Incorporate One Blog Into Another
In the last post, I talked about using Feedburner's "BuzzBoost" feature to excerpt one of your blogs in another blog or website. Maricopa Community Colleges offer a similar feature, Feed2JS.
Feed2JS is a small piece of javascript code that you generate after entering your feed (aka web feed, RSS/Atom/XML feed) URL. This code is simply inserted in that part of your blog or website page template where you want the excerpt to appear.
Both Feed2JS and BuzzBoost output can be set to plain text or HTML. If you select HTML, both outputs can be styled using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets - see CSS Zen Garden as a starting point). However, the Feed2JS service actually lets you select one of a couple dozen predefined stylesheets. It'll output the CSS code for the style you select, which you can just copy and paste into your page template (along with the snippet of javascript code).
The only drawback of the Feed2JS is that it only works with RSS-format web feeds. So blogger.com users are out of luck, unless they use another service to convert their blog's Atom-format feed into RSS first. (Feedburner offers this, but then why not use Feedburner's BuzzBoost, as I mentioned in the last post?)
Links: Feed2JS, Feedburner, CSS Zen Garden, BlogSpinner BuzzBoost blog entry.
(c) Copyright: 2005-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/
Feed2JS is a small piece of javascript code that you generate after entering your feed (aka web feed, RSS/Atom/XML feed) URL. This code is simply inserted in that part of your blog or website page template where you want the excerpt to appear.
Both Feed2JS and BuzzBoost output can be set to plain text or HTML. If you select HTML, both outputs can be styled using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets - see CSS Zen Garden as a starting point). However, the Feed2JS service actually lets you select one of a couple dozen predefined stylesheets. It'll output the CSS code for the style you select, which you can just copy and paste into your page template (along with the snippet of javascript code).
The only drawback of the Feed2JS is that it only works with RSS-format web feeds. So blogger.com users are out of luck, unless they use another service to convert their blog's Atom-format feed into RSS first. (Feedburner offers this, but then why not use Feedburner's BuzzBoost, as I mentioned in the last post?)
Links: Feed2JS, Feedburner, CSS Zen Garden, BlogSpinner BuzzBoost blog entry.
(c) Copyright: 2005-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/
