There are several ways to add dynamic content to your homepage. One of the simplest is to use an RSS Feed Reader that is pulling data from your Event Calendar or Room Reserve system. Below is a description of the process.
An RSS feed is simply a dynamic list of data. In the case of your Event Calendar it is a list of events. The most obvious reason for using an RSS feed is that it will provide dynamic content without the need to changing the link periodically. So the link:
will always give you today's training sessions no matter what day it is when you click on it.
There are several ways to make use of the data that is obtained from an RSS feed. Advanced web programmers may want to obtain the data and then manipulate it in lots of crazy ways (an XML feed would be best for this since it is just the raw data and it is generated by a similar link), but most of us just want it to display on our homepage. So how do we do that?
An RSS Feed Reader is a piece of code that can be included on your site that will pull an RSS feed (the data from it) and display it in a coherent fashion. A feed reader can be created (by an advanced programmer) or obtained from one of many free resources. To find a feed reader you can do a web search for "RSS to HTML conversion". Here is a link that lists many feed reader sites and their costs (many are free!): RSS Feed Reader Sites You may have to register on their site to use their code and there are some paid services with many more features but even the free ones work well in most cases.
There are 2 methods of generating the feed reader code most of these sites.
In either case the RSS feed is displayed on your homepage with very little code work needed by you.
Article ID: 92
Created On: Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:53 PM
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