Ocelot
27th February 2008, 04:30 AM
At work, we have a website already hosted on a cold fusion server running on Windows 2000 OS.
It has regularly updated content.
Users have requested the ability to subscribe to new content via RSS.
What I'm thinking of is three separate channels for events, policy announcements and press releases plus one aggregated channel containing them all. I have not yet decided which of the many semi compatible Syndication standards to adopt. I'm am leaning toward following the lead of the BBC and adopting RSS 2.0
As it stands our users edit content themselves using Macromedia Contribute to edit a test server in our intranet. They then ask us to upload the new versions onto the live server.
I can see myself writing the RSS feeds manually. Adding an entry when new content is posted. Eventually writing a web app hosted on our intranet to automate the process -
Just enter headline, first paragraph and link to origianl content and it adds correctly formatted xml to the existing feed(s).
Then I'd be able to hand that over to the users so that my involvement simply reduces to uploading user edited versions of the rss document to the live server. Thus I can spend more time on my forums ;-)
I cannot imagine that such a task has not allerady been accomplished and wonder if I can dowload a quick and dirty fix.
However searches for RSS editing software yeild only content managemtn systems that automate RSS feed creation. Transferring our site to such a content management system is not a feasible solution to this project.
Does anybody have familiarity with this subject who could point me in the right direction?
The RSS feeed editor need not be hosted on the intranet - that's simply the my development platform of choice for a homebrew. A standalone app that can do the same thing would be cool. I'm even happy if I have to aggregate the feed manually.
Any suggestions welcome.
It has regularly updated content.
Users have requested the ability to subscribe to new content via RSS.
What I'm thinking of is three separate channels for events, policy announcements and press releases plus one aggregated channel containing them all. I have not yet decided which of the many semi compatible Syndication standards to adopt. I'm am leaning toward following the lead of the BBC and adopting RSS 2.0
As it stands our users edit content themselves using Macromedia Contribute to edit a test server in our intranet. They then ask us to upload the new versions onto the live server.
I can see myself writing the RSS feeds manually. Adding an entry when new content is posted. Eventually writing a web app hosted on our intranet to automate the process -
Just enter headline, first paragraph and link to origianl content and it adds correctly formatted xml to the existing feed(s).
Then I'd be able to hand that over to the users so that my involvement simply reduces to uploading user edited versions of the rss document to the live server. Thus I can spend more time on my forums ;-)
I cannot imagine that such a task has not allerady been accomplished and wonder if I can dowload a quick and dirty fix.
However searches for RSS editing software yeild only content managemtn systems that automate RSS feed creation. Transferring our site to such a content management system is not a feasible solution to this project.
Does anybody have familiarity with this subject who could point me in the right direction?
The RSS feeed editor need not be hosted on the intranet - that's simply the my development platform of choice for a homebrew. A standalone app that can do the same thing would be cool. I'm even happy if I have to aggregate the feed manually.
Any suggestions welcome.