Feeds content block

caroline

Is anyone using the feeds content block?
I've never really understood feeds but would like to see examples of how this is being used on new Smugmug sites

Caroline

Andy

Why don't you just try it
You can always delete it.

caroline

Andy wrote: »

Why don't you just try it
You can always delete it.

You're right as usual Andy

caroline

caroline wrote: »

You're right as usual Andy

Hmmmm presumably it does away with the need to customise a blog to match the site?

denisegoldberg

caroline wrote: »

Hmmmm presumably it does away with the need to customise a blog to match the site?

It probably depends on what you are after. I believe that a feed from a blog would only show the blog content and not the navigation. That's fine if viewers want the current contact but likely to be a good thing if they want control to go back to previous entries or sets of entries. And it might be fine for your needs.

I don't believe it would be difficult for you to adjust your current blog to match your current site. You don't need to change the names of the divs but you may need to make some minor adjustments. After all it did match a previous version of your site.

--- Denise

Darter02

I have a feed on my homepage to my blogger site. I have to it set to just the latest post. Using statcounter I could see where I had some folks who'd go to my old Smugmug site, and then go to my blogger to read the latest. I figured I'd save them a step. The things I've noticed about Feeds is, if you've rounded you corners in SM, they will not be rounded in the Feed. If you happened to format any links in Blogger with tags, they will not work in the Feed. If you embedded any sort of iframe, it will not appear in the Feed.

Ann McRae

Here's Schmoo's elegant example: http://photos.schmootography.com/Essays

She is using a Wordpress feed.

I use blogger: http://www.windermerestudios.ca/WindermereServices/Windermere-Studios-Blog

caroline

Denise I'm really not sure what I want or even if I can go back to maintaining a blog, but I wanted to see how it might work and if that would inspire me to make the effort:)

Darter02 it seems to work nicely for you:)

Ann - Schmoo's is really so beautiful but way beyond what I could contemplate and yours looks very nice too!

I've made a test page http://www.carolineshipsey.co.uk/Places/Feeds-Test so you can see what it looks like. I don't understand why the date looks like it does and I'm not sure how to proceed with any further customization? Should it be a block with other content or just stand alone - if so how to fill the large amount of space to the right?

Ann, where did you get the feed url from please?


Caroline

denisegoldberg

caroline wrote: »

I've made a test page http://www.carolineshipsey.co.uk/Places/Feeds-Test so you can see what it looks like. I don't understand why the date looks like it does and I'm not sure how to proceed with any further customization?

I'm not sure why it is showing like that but the date is in a standard ISO date format.

2013-02-15T15:22:13.627Z is... year - month - day T hour : minute : second . millisecond. And Z as the time zone indicates GMT

I don't know why blogger is giving you the date in this format in the feed but not in your blog. It might be worth checking the blog settings though.

--- Denise