Hi, I'm a new member of Syndic8 and am hoping someone can help me figure out how to do an Atom feed for my blog. Sorry to say -- but my html and css experience is limited just to tweaking templates (and only then when I can find clear instructions online).
Here's my dilemma: I tried selecting the option to enable the Atom feed for my blog, which I create at Blogger.com and send via ftp to my own domain, but the site feed function still does not seem to work. (I signed up at bloglines.com to see if I could get the feed. Didn't work.) So I read the Blogger.com online help article about "Template Tags Defined" at this url below in hopes that I could figure out how to tweak my template's coding to include this function: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=778&query=template% 20tags%20defined&topic=0&type=f And *that* article was no help at all. It's not clear whether I need to use ALL or SOME of the code on the page or -- or how to tweak it for my own site -- or even WHERE in the darned template to place this code. (I did at least figure out that I needed to substitute my own blog ID, which the article didn't state clearly.) Below is what I created, based on the info on the "Template Tags Defined" web page. But when I tried placing it in my blog's template, it at first messed up the fonts in my template, and when I reloaded the page it then generated only a blank page. Nothing. Nada. So I removed that coding and my blog now appears normally. But I want a site feed! Can anyone please review the code below and tell me (1) what changes I need to make and (2) where to place it in my template? I'm sorry to be so clueless -- I'm very, very new to messing with this template, which uses css. My blog is online at this URL below (but please note that I don't have any of the site feed coding in there now): http://www.carolynbahm.com/knitblog/knitblog_index.htm Thanks -- here's the code: I placed this code just below the <style type="text/css"> tag in my template: <!-- I AM TRYING TO INSERT META-TAG STUFF HERE TO GENERATE SITE FEED - -!> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF- 8" /> <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" /> <meta name="generator" content="Blogger" /> <link rel="service.feed" type="application/atom+xml" title="The Loopy KnitBlog" href="http://carolynbahm.com/knitblog/service_feed/atom.xml"; /> <link rel="service.post" type="application/atom+xml" title="The Loopy KnitBlog" href="http://www.blogger.com/atom/10040629"; /> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://www.blogger.com/rsd.pyra?blogID=10040629"; /> <!-- END OF WHERE I AM TRYING TO INSERT META-TAG STUFF HERE TO GENERATE SITE FEED --!> <!-- I AM TRYING TO INSERT SOME MORE META-TAG STUFF HERE THAT I THIS IS SUPPOSED TO ALSO BE NEEDED FOR GENERATING SITE FEED --!> <$BlogSiteFeedLink$> <link rel="service.feed" type="application/atom+xml" title="The Loopy KnitBlog" href="http://www.carolynbahm.com/knitblog/service_feed/atom.xml"; /> <$BlogEncoding$> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<$BlogEncoding$>" /> <BlogSiteFeed> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom feed" href="<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>" /> </BlogSiteFeed> <!-- END OF WHERE I AM TRYING TO INSERT SOME MORE META-TAG STUFF FOR GENERATING SITE FEED --!> This next piece of coding below was placed within the **sidebar** coding in my template: <!-- START OF WHERE I AM TRYING TO INSERT THE ATOMFEED BUTTON AND A HYPERLINK TO ATOM FEED --!> <a href="<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>" title="Atom feed"><img src="http://www.carolynbahm.com/knitblog/images/atomvalid.gif";></a><br > <a href="<$BlogSiteFeedUrl$>" title="Atom feed" font-size="xx- small">Site Feed</a><br> <$BlogSiteFeedLink$><link rel="service.feed" type="application/atom+xml" title="The Loopy KnitBlog" href="http://www.carolynbahm.com/knitblog/site_feed/atom.xml"/> <!-- END OF WHERE I AM TRYING TO INSERT THE ATOMFEED BUTTON AND A HYPERLINK TO ATOM FEED --!> Please help! -- Carolyn Bahm ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EpW3eD/3MnJAA/cosFAA/IRislB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you're getting "too much mail" then send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this will tell it to stop sending you mail) To change your membership use THIS WEB PAGE: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/join (here you can set your mail to digest, no mail or LEAVE the list) To find more info about Syndicated XML newsfeeds visit http://www.syndic8.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/syndic8/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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