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RE: Website

Reign-Mack — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:58:12 GMT

invision was great for rss feeds

*runs and hides.

RE: Website

Chas — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 10:53:59 GMT

Aye, I can change the sort order of the forum, but unfortunately it makes sod all difference to the feed which still displays it in the order it wants to (ie: by last post), which is dumb. Dumber still is the calendar where the date of an actual event doesn't even get extracted into the feed. Shoddy.

RE: Website

Reign-Mack — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:43:28 GMT

are there any settings for the RSS Feeds in the admin CP?

RE: Website

Chas — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:55:25 GMT

So much for using the feeds, would have been nice and simple had it not been for the fact that the forum feeds don't work properly which means I'd have to do a lot of extra coding to use them. Will have to go back to extracting stuff direct from the database but will aim to get some kind of front page up as soon as possible, then we can add to it as and when.

RE: Website

Chas — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:19:06 GMT

Cheers for the links, never though of making use of the RSS feed, doh, although it can't quite do everything we originally wanted to do, with a bit of scripting we should be sorted. Done some initial testing and looking good, hopefully we'll have something put together soon.

RE: Website

OddSmitty — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:01:21 GMT

That's a fairly easy process, all things considered. There are a hundred and one websites out there that detail in plain English how to dynamically display RSS feed information on a website.

Here are some examples:

http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/code-gallery-wade6.php

http://www.feedforall.com/displaying-rss.htm

http://www.elixirsystems.com/seo_tips/rss_feeds_website_consuming.php

If if gets a little complicated, feel free to get in touch and I'll take a look at it. I haven't written any HTML or any other code for a couple of years now, but from reading those websites above, it shouldn't take too much playing around with.

RE: Website

Reign-Mack — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:23:20 GMT

OddSmitty (28/06/2006)

Reign-Mack (28/06/2006)

does anybody have experience with RSS feeds. the entire forum generates them so it would not be hard to create a dynamic front page thats looks like the original template.

In what way are you trying to incoporate the RSS feed into the front page? For example, are you trying to link recent post information and the such like?

pretty much yeah,

http://www.myxbox.co.uk//RssFeed2-0-0-1.aspx

http://www.myxbox.co.uk//RssFeed3-0-0-1.aspx

etc.

RE: Website

FLAN uk — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:39:40 GMT

i second(third? fourth??) that idea of having a front page, it will give us an identity, as a forum is just a forum, just a collective, a bit like the Borg.

you will be assimilated...

RE: Website

OddSmitty — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:14:04 GMT

Reign-Mack (28/06/2006)

does anybody have experience with RSS feeds. the entire forum generates them so it would not be hard to create a dynamic front page thats looks like the original template.

In what way are you trying to incoporate the RSS feed into the front page? For example, are you trying to link recent post information and the such like?

RE: Website

Chas — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:02:58 GMT

Nice idea of having a front page even if we haven't got everything else sorted out on how to pull the news etc into it. At least we could have a bit about the site, who we cater for, forum guidelines etc etc.

I'll have a look at using the RSS feeds too, there's probably some scripts out there we could use/convert.

Great ideas, cheers.

RE: Website

Brats — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:36:29 GMT

I'm a complete 'tard when it comes to anything net or programming related. Sorry .

RE: Website

Reign-Mack — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:34:39 GMT

does anybody have experience with RSS feeds. the entire forum generates them so it would not be hard to create a dynamic front page thats looks like the original template.

RE: Website

Tw1sted Demon — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:00:08 GMT

I really like that brats...thats exactly how I imagined the myxbox one could be...very good

RE: Website

Brats — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:15:36 GMT

I always thought this was a site with a good front page. Like us, it is just a forum.

http://www.greenhillzone.co.uk/

RE: Website

DM — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:57:55 GMT

Sounds a good idea, just a very simple front page.

BTW: this new section isn't included in the posts since my last visit search.

RE: Website

Tw1sted Demon — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:51:00 GMT

Maybe if you just made a front end for the forums? I'm not so sure if a full-blow website is needed, for the reviews and such I mean because, well lets face it we can't compete with the likes of Gamespot and IGN can we?

The only thing that is slightly off putting is if you put the URL in and you come straight to a forum, maybe just a simple page, explaining what myxbox is all about would be nice to start with? Containing a link to the forums, and maybe some information about any tournaments or whatever is going on at that time?

Website

Chas — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:26:30 GMT

For those of you not about at the time we used to have a fully featured website as well as the old forums, but the feeling was that it made the place too disjointed and a lot of the features that were on the site just weren't being used because community members naturally gravitated towards the forums first. We were always primarily a community of gamers, the website came later but because we already lived on the forums it never really worked.

So the last time we had a makeover, just prior to the 360 launch was to do away with all that and basically run everything through the forums, but have a front end with sections for Xbox 360, Xbox and PC where stuff from the appropriate forums and such things as the calendar would be pulled onto those pages.

Unfortunately for various reasons this part of the development never actually happened, although in recent weeks Reign Mack has been working on the template but it now needs cobbling together, nick72 is a bit busy at the moment so I'm not sure when that will happen, unless we have any other asp.net coders amongst us, I'm not that confident in .net to really undertake doing it myself.

Any thoughts or .net coders lurking out there who are able to help?