Reviews Feed?

[Raisingdad2004]

Maybe an RSS Feed of the Reviews would be handy? I don't think you use a script to add reviews but even so an RSS file could be edited manually, I usually forget to check for the latest reviews and adding it to My Yahoo or Google would be handy.

[TJ]

I'm not sure I know how to create a feed manually, but I guess I could look into it.

[Raisingdad2004]

Nothing to it really.

A text editor and manually editing. Here is the top part

<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Sitcoms Online DVD Reviews</title>
<link>http://www.sitcomsonline.com</link>
<description>DVD Reviews</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>
Copyright 2006 Sitcoms Online
</copyright>

a DVD Review would be like this (so add this for every review)

<item>
<title>Roseanne: Season 3</title>
<link>
http://sitcomsonline.com/roseanneseason3dvdreview.html
</link>
<description>
The award winning series 'Roseanne' heads to DVD with its 3rd Season, from Anchor Bay and Carsey-Werner.
Read our review at Sitcoms Online.
</description>
</item>

and at the end of the file

</channel>
</rss>

[Raisingdad2004]

Any word on this?
Did the above code work?

[TJ]

I need to install a RSS reader. Test this link:

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/dvdreviews.xml

I can't get the right published time to display in it.

[robyrob]

Originally Posted by TJ

I need to install a RSS reader. Test this link:

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/dvdreviews.xml

firefox has a built-in RSS reader

that link gets an error in firefox at least:
"This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below."

the automatic RSS feed for SO is: http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/...l.php?type=RSS

it's just the same as the View New Posts

[TJ]

TVShowsonDVD.com's news feed gets the same error in Firefox. Where is the built-in reader within the browser?

Feed Validator validates the link for me:

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?u...dvdreviews.xml

[robyrob]

if you click on the RSS button in the status bar on the right, you can subscribe to it, then just choose where you want the Bookmark - check out this: http://johnbokma.com/firefox/rss-and...bookmarks.html

firefox just treats RSS feeds as active bookmarks, with constantly updated submenus - i just put them on the Bookmarks toolbar.

I dont get any errors in firefox with either the Sitcoms Online Blog RSS or the TVShows on DVD RSS feeds

[robyrob]

Originally Posted by TJ

I need to install a RSS reader. Test this link:

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/dvdreviews.xml

I can't get the right published time to display in it.

well, apparently the link DOES work if i create the Live Bookmark manually

so if you put the subscription code on the reviews page it should work

[Raisingdad2004]

The style thing is not an error per-se, a lot of feeds don't have style sheets. Unless you want the basic RSS/XML to be styled and readble there is no point.

It appeaes fine in Google and the Google RSS Reader,
http://www.google.com/reader/view/fe...dvdreviews.xml

Must be fine then

This also may be helpful to add somewhere to the site,

<a href="http://www.google.com/ig/add?feedurl=http://sitcomsonline.com/dvdreviews.xml"><img src="http://buttons.googlesyndication.com/fusion/add.gif" width="104" height="17" border="0" alt="Add to Google"></a>

Its an 'Add to Google' link/image, it will add it to your customized page if you have one and here is one for Yahoo.

<a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/my/atm/Sitcoms%20Online/DVD%20Reviews/*http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http%3A//www.sitcomsonline.com/dvdreviews.xml"><img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/my/addtomyyahoo4.gif" width="91" height="17" border="0" align="middle" alt="Add to My Yahoo!"></a>

[Raisingdad2004]

Along the lines of the 'Add to Google' and such links above, maybe a page like this would be useful:
http://www.thegoldengirls.co.uk/News/news.html
It shows all the places you can easily add their RSS Feed to different services, one could be created for the News Blog/Reviews Feed and linked to in the needed places.

[TJ]

A bit excessive with all the buttons I think... A simple RSS button would suffice in most cases. Most people would know how to copy the link and paste into Google or Yahoo.

[Raisingdad2004]

There is probably no need for all those buttons, it is overkill.

But this site is a good example of just enough, http://www.metacritic.com/rss/

[Raisingdad2004]

There appears to be a problem with the feed. Some services still accept it fine - but the error is coming from a & in the feed section All & should be & otherwise errors occur. An interesting thing also showed up \85 - no idea what that is. http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?u...dvdreviews.xml

[TJ]

I don't know how much of a problem that would cause. Most feed readers would still make them readable. I'll have to remember to change & to and.