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hp_1981@yahoo.com

2006-06-27, 8:28 pm

Hi

My website is a web directory like dmoz and yahoo directory. Can I let
webmasters or even weblog owners to have a copy of my site, allowing
them to present it the way they want to, by providing rss links? Is rss
a good solution?


If so, I think I have two options:

1. Providing a rss feed for each page (each directory):
In this case, can website owners show all my website's pages by using a
rss reader without redirecting users to my website?

2. Providing a single rss file on the homepage:
Then the size of it may reach up to 4 MB. Will this cause any problem
for rss readers? can rss readers categorizes this single file and show
it in different virtual pages?

If you help me to a good solution, I should be grateful. Thanks you!

Regards,
Hector

Peter Flynn

2006-06-27, 8:28 pm

hp_1981@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> My website is a web directory like dmoz and yahoo directory. Can I let
> webmasters or even weblog owners to have a copy of my site, allowing
> them to present it the way they want to, by providing rss links? Is rss
> a good solution?
>
>
> If so, I think I have two options:
>
> 1. Providing a rss feed for each page (each directory):
> In this case, can website owners show all my website's pages by using a
> rss reader without redirecting users to my website?
>
> 2. Providing a single rss file on the homepage:
> Then the size of it may reach up to 4 MB. Will this cause any problem
> for rss readers? can rss readers categorizes this single file and show
> it in different virtual pages?


Why would it reach 4Mb? A site RSS feed should contain a summary of
each story, not the entire story itself. If the site is really *that*
huge, then use one feed at the top giving the latest updates only,
redone hourly, and secondary feeds at the major divisions, and so on.

///Peter
Andrea Raimondi

2006-06-27, 8:28 pm

Peter Flynn wrote:
> Why would it reach 4Mb? A site RSS feed should contain a summary of
> each story, not the entire story itself. If the site is really *that*
> huge, then use one feed at the top giving the latest updates only,
> redone hourly, and secondary feeds at the major divisions, and so on.


Hi Peter,

I think you know very well that some blogs have the so called "main
page" that can show the entire blog post at will.

That is what I guess the OP was referring to, although I think that
such a practice isn't very user friendly because it makes browsing
messages alot more time consuming than it would having only a few lines.

I also wanted to add for the OP that making RSS files by hand isn't
exactlty an easy task and would so actively think to an automated
solution.

> ///Peter


Andrew
hp_1981@yahoo.com

2006-06-27, 8:28 pm


Peter Flynn wrote:
> Why would it reach 4Mb? A site RSS feed should contain a summary of
> each story, not the entire story itself. If the site is really *that*
> huge, then use one feed at the top giving the latest updates only,
> redone hourly, and secondary feeds at the major divisions, and so on.


for presenting the entire story what is the best soloution?

> ///Peter


Hector

hp_1981@yahoo.com

2006-06-27, 8:28 pm


Peter Flynn wrote:
> Why would it reach 4Mb? A site RSS feed should contain a summary of
> each story, not the entire story itself. If the site is really *that*
> huge, then use one feed at the top giving the latest updates only,
> redone hourly, and secondary feeds at the major divisions, and so on.


Hi
for presenting the entire story what is the best soloution?

> ///Peter


Hector

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