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[GaryBradshaw]

I use a content management system where only the home page articles are available as feeds.

I am wondering if I created a subdomain and then got some software like Blogger or whatever if I could copy all my content to this "site" then allow people to select which artciles or sections to place feeds to.

In addition I could say on my regular site that if someone wanted to comment on this article they should "click here" and then I would take them to the blog part of the site.

The issue is that the content would be the 95% the same and I am concerned about posting duplicate content - as I do not want to make the search engines mad.

However I can not think of another way to provide feeds.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thank you very much

[Shane]

We set our feeds up manually so that we have total control over what we offer and where. I'm assuming you want to do the feeds through a content management app, though, right?

[GaryBradshaw]

It does not have to be a content management app, it can be simple, I could just cut and paste into the blog or whatever.

[Shane]

An RSS feed is super easy to code. If you can hand-code HTML, you can code RSS. Take a look at the RSS feed from your site, copy it to a new location, change the content to whatever you want, and then put up links to it. That's all there is to it. There's even a free RSS validator to help you get it exactly right: http://www.feedvalidator.org/

[GaryBradshaw]

Well so much for that, I can not hand code HTML

[Shane]

Ha! Yeah

[Randy]

Which HTML editor do you use Gary? If it's one of the major ones someone has most likely already written an extension for it to create or import xml/rss feeds.

Going from memory here, but if you happen to use Dreamweaver MX I believe that InterAKTonline.com offers an extension for about $30 that should do the trick. It'll even integrate with a database if you want it to. Pretty much a point and click thing and was pretty slick when I tested it for a friend some months ago.

I'm not aware of any such extension for FrontPage, but there probably is one. I just don't work with FP at all.

HTML-Kit, which I use, has a freebie plugin to create RSS feeds quickly and easily.

If the articles were already available in rss/xml format something like RSStatic.com might work to help automate the process of giving another entry point. That doesn't sound like the case here, but I'll mention it just in case those feed are being created but simply not being linked to by the CMS software.

<edit>Oops! Must remember to read while typing urls.</edit>

Edited by Randy, 27 July 2005 - 03:39 PM.

[GaryBradshaw]

Sorry for the delay in replying, I forget sometimes to ask for email notification of replies.

I use Mambo, a CMS tool. And it only allows RSS from the home page.