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iWeb RSS
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Your iWeb blog has an RSS feed built right in. But you can make it easier for your readers to subscribe to it. This screencast shows how to provide links that add your feed to My Yahoo and Google homepage.
We’ll also look at making sure the RSS feed works when you publish to a folder instead of .Mac. If you’ve found the iWeb URL field confusing, we’ll clear things up. If you don’t enter the right URL in the field your iWeb RSS feed won’t work.
When you’re done watching, click Murphy’s Yahoo / Google links on his start page. You wouldn’t want to miss a post!
NOTE: If you’re here because the RSS feed on your iWeb blog doesn’t work, make sure you watch the second half of this screencast.
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11 comments to “iWeb RSS”
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12. September 2008 at 7:51 pm :
Hello,
I followed your screencast and the RSS feeds basically work but thumbnails never display in IE, Firefox and Safari. Any hints?
http://www.partytiltheam.com/Party_til_the_AM/Party_til_the_AM/Pages/Chicago_-_Summer_Lovin_2008_files/rss.xml
Thanks!
3. October 2008 at 9:12 am :
The RSS tutorial was great and it worked for Yahoo but not Google (the message on Google reads (Information is temporarily unavailable). I’ve checked it over and over again for any typos I might have made, but it seems everything is in working order. Any ideas?
Question 2: I want to change the title of the RSS “Events”–which I didn’t select in the first place, to another name like “Calender” but even though the word “Event” is no longer listed in the URL or iWeb, it is still coming up as the title in Yahoo and Google.
I appreciate any assistance.
Thanks!
20. April 2009 at 5:33 pm :
Hi I looked at your video and I double checked everything you had said in regards to the rss.xml and I had it all correct but it still will not work. I get the 404 error Not Found
The requested URL /html/Newsletter/rss.xml was not found on this server.
I made sure all files were there and named right and that the rss feed was there as well. It was because it was automatically put there by iWeb. I reloaded the newsletter file folder and it still does not work. Are there any other folders that I need to update in order for the RSS to work. I’m about ready to just remove it from the site and not mess with the RSS.
21. April 2009 at 3:02 am :
I’ll email you, but looking at your site you probably don’t have the correct entry in the field asking for your domain name when you publish. I think you’ve added “html” to the end of the url string. And it shouldn’t be there.
Correction: It looks like the site name folder wasn’t published to the web host - because you named your site ‘html’ it was hard to tell what happened !
26. May 2009 at 11:32 pm :
Hi Murphy,
I created my website in iWeb and uploaded it to my Netfirms server using Cyberduck. The fact that Cyberduck doesn’t recognize how to synchronize only the new pages is one frustration… and not your area of expertise most likely. But, it might affect the nature of your response to my RSS feed question.
I used the regular RSS feed button in iWeb but, once the website is on the web, you get this message when you try to get it to feed: The requested URL /www.vibrationalvoyages.com/Applying_Principles/rss.xml was not found on this server.
I’m thinking this is because Netfirms has put my website info into a subfolder. I say this because your info for linking to google worked when I put in this address: http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=http://www.vibrationalvoyages.com/www.vibrationalvoyages.com/rss.xml
(Or, at least it has in iWeb - I haven’t uploaded the new changes yet)
My question is: how do I get the iWeb RSS feed to work? Also, a similar problem is happening with the Podcast feed that I put on the GUIDED MEDITATIONS page.
Can you help a major rookie out of her internet black hole?
Glenn
5. November 2009 at 2:56 pm :
Hello Murphy,
My problem is exactly the same as Tina’s, but I’ve named the site folder correctly, I think…
Please help me before I go completely bald from tearing my hair out.
Victoria
28. December 2009 at 6:14 pm :
Hi,
no wbsite in the internet answer a very simple question regarding the rss feed in IWEB. What if I want to subscribe to an external news feed and show it into my website? I just want to show the news feed in my website I don’t want my website visitors to subscribe to any of my feeds. How can I solve this problem??? In IWEB there’s only the chance of putting a button that is for subscribing to the website users to the website content but I don’t want this.I just want to show external news not mine. How can I solve this?
14. January 2010 at 9:25 pm :
Im only just getting in to RSS feeds but I think its fantastic
15. May 2010 at 9:33 pm :
Hello,
I found your tutorial very helpful so I thank you. I got everything to work except for the RSS subscribe button. When I hit that I get taken to a error page that reads:
Not Found
The requested URL /davidwarnold.com/DA_blog/rss.xml was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
If you dont mind, could you have a look at my site, http://www.davidwarnold.com and hit the blog link on the bottom right.
FYI, I am using Filezilla for my uploads.
I certainly apprecaite your help!
DA
24. May 2010 at 7:31 pm :
I get David’s question a lot. After following up I found it was because he hadn’t uploaded the folder named after his site name in iWeb. When you publish you’ll see a folder in Finder with the same name as your site, this is the folder to upload. Not just its contents.
19. June 2010 at 2:56 am :
still trying to get rss feed to work. I really liked your video. I would like to make some instructional videos for my students. What program/software did you use to create your video?
Thanks.