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Smong · Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:46 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject: ss news site

In an effort to see a half decent news site I made this
http://toktok.sscentral.com/ssnews.php

It lifts news from other sites for the past 21 days. Not all sites have (easily accessable) date stamps on their news, these items will always appear 14 days old.

If you want to see a site listed on there leave a comment here.

If you know css I'm looking for a way to do a 2 column format. Left column for news with a date, right column for undated news. http://toktok.sscentral.com/demo.html was my attempt, as you can see there are gaps to the left or right of the article where there shouldn't be.

CypherJF · Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:55 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

nice
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Cyan~Fire · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:32 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Good job, this should be useful.

Maverick · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:16 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

very very nice script.
Maybe it can be used at sscentral.com at one time? TheBajan is currently busy rebuilding that site.

About CSS, was about to suggest the same as Cyan; use tables ;p
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Cerium · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 3:08 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Code: Show/Hide

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Smong · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:52 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Well the thing is, I have all the articles sorted by date, so it would be nice if I could just assign a tag... meh I could just make all the undated articles go at the bottom of the sort and use two div's or a table. bleh.

Anyway I added WZ CTF, sscentral and SSDL.

As the amount of articles is increasing I'm thinking of moving the date limit to 14 days (from 21), comments?

Grelminar · Creator of Asss Joined: Feb 26 2003 Posts: 378 Offline

Awesome. I love it. Can you get http://sscx.net/asss/ in there? I'm willing to reformat the page to look like anything you want if it'll make it easier.

Smong · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:01 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Just keep the date at the beginning of each list item and it should be fine.

Edit: one thing you might want to do is make the latest item read 2005 instead of 2004.

CypherJF · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:04 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

2 words: RSS feed(s).

I mean I know smong is parsing out HTML and locating each news entry that way; but the intent of an RSS feeds to accomplish the same thing in a more simplier fashion. And then anyone can read it, in say, Firefox live bookmarks! w00t.

Smong · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:27 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I might add an rss feed. That's probably not what you meant, it's unlikely every popular ss site with news is going to implement rss.

CypherJF · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:00 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Ya, what I'm referring to is that most sites should offer it now. I was hesistent at first but after adding sites like slashdot, bbc latest headlines, php.net, secunia, mozilla dev topics, file hippo it's a great addition to keep up to date.

Donkano · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:56 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Ya, I use Firefox, but, what the hell is an RSS feed?

It may seem like a dumb question, but, I am not sure what it is, I heard of it before, but I don't know what is so great about it or what it is.

CypherJF · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:20 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

RSS

My SS-news feed URL, use firefox add a new 'live' bookmark, you'll see it expand once it retreives the data:
http://cypherjf.sscentral.com/category/ss-news/feed/

It's an easier way to syndicate news feeds, or data together. It generally takes the form of XML style.

Firefox will show THIS IMAGE when it determines a feed is present.

Anywho, sorry for stealing focus off the page. I just wanted to say if people used RSS feeds, it'd make parsing data a lot easier for these type of projects.

Donkano · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 12:14 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Thanks for the definition CypherJF, now i got 1 more question on it, how do I hook FF up to that feed?

CypherJF · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 12:44 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

See that 'THIS IMAGE' link, you can subscribe to any of them as you choose and it should open up a window for where you want to bookmark it to.

Donkano · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:02 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I don't see that image on my browser window at all in the bottom right corner.

CypherJF · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:27 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Are you using that theme? If you visit a direct feed site like the address I posted, it won't display it as a feed because Firefox will parse the HTML for tags stating where the feeds exist. Make sense?

Try going to http://cypherjf.sscentral.com, you should see an icon similar to that somewhere in the status bar.

Maverick · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:31 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

cool, cypherJf. Didn't know about FF's RSS Support too.

Once we are rebuilding 17thparallel.com im sure RSS is going to be implemented into it.

SyrusMX · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:46 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Dude, 17th's staff page hasn't been updated since 11/04...

Maverick · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:24 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

The current 17thparallel.com website is bugged, crappy, sloppy code, bad design and I hate it.
That's one of the reasons why its going to be remade. Probably its going to use some database for the staff list so it goes all automatically

But more in a reply to your statement: "we know"

Donkano · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:22 am *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

Okay, I see the feed icon. But what is the difference between the 3 feeds?

CypherJF · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 12:02 pm *Post maybe stupid* Post subject:

I'm not sure the exact differences, this is where someone else can come in and help explain

. But I always select the RSS 2.0 until 3.0 is released/implemented.

Swift · Newbie Joined: Jun 30 2004 Posts: 11 Offline

I've started implementing RSS Feeds to SSForum/SSCentral.Com just so you all know. Smong I will talk to you later in-game about this alright?