Man, I could read about you guys deciphering code for 1/2 a day,, all right, ALL day. Even though I only understand bits, actually I'm not even clear on that. Bits for color and bits for security,  ok, enough chit chat. I want to paste the rss parser in. I'll dedicate a page to it. Do I paste it into the body code section or what? As soon as you get up from the floor from laughing so hard, you can answer. ha ha,, thanks,,,,, I'm sure that's where I would put it but I've made two errors already doing things before being sure and wind up with 300 capitol A's scattered all over the text I have to go through and delete out. At least that fixes it. And yes I didn't back it up just before. I've got to do an hour or two of editing first and then do something that causes a fatal error. But that's just me.
Another fast one while I'm here. I have looked through some basic tag tutorials and pretty much understand it. Seems as though I've seen some tags used that aren't in the info I'm reading and vice-versa. Is there some literature available that explains more including the structure of coding. I want to learn how to do it.,,thanks again

Well, G'day, hdpanama. Welcom to the forum.

Now HD, no one here is going to laugh at you. If you waste our time, we'll be offended and may tell you that we don't like being used up. But laugh, naa.

Your question, HD, is irrelevent. Forget about the RSS for now and learn to build a website.

Download a free html editor and get into this tutorial: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/basics.html

When you've worked through the tutorial, build a website and ask for a site review or else ask questions about things you're stuck on, as you go.

If you're for real, you'll get help from some very capable webmasters on the forum. Let's see!

Regards,
Laurie.

if your looking for a good html editer use 'aceHTML' dont use something like Dreamweaver, as that will give you a website full of errors that will only work 1/10th of the time.

notepad works too, but you have to save it as a .htm file, and its really not recamended to use notepad.

if you want to paste in an RSS parser, then have a read here:
http://forums.site-reference.com/forum/ … nd-Tricks/

Google PSpad, its a freeware editor and works like a charm, it has all the quirks and hardly any of the flaws as normal not so free html editors. Ive been using it since i started.... shortly after a few months of notepad actually, and still do. No im not affiliated... i woulda posted a link if i was

Seriously though, its small and very user friendly.

edit: its not called "Google PSpad" i meant google (as in do) an app called pspad my bad.

SoraCross wrote:

if your looking for a good html editer use 'aceHTML' dont use something like Dreamweaver, as that will give you a website full of errors that will only work 1/10th of the time.

notepad works too, but you have to save it as a .htm file, and its really not recamended to use notepad.

Ok, where does this evidence come from? I use Dreamweaver to code any page, whether it is simple XHTML to advanced PHP/MySQL coding.

By the time I am done, the page will validate 100% with W3C standards.

Everyone says Dreamweaver ruins pages and is absolutely horrible.

I say use it and make up your own opinion.

And who doesnt recommend Notepad? Simple, small, basic text editor. Another choice that I know is used.

SoraCross wrote:

dont use something like Dreamweaver, as that will give you a website full of errors that will only work 1/10th of the time.

This is funny. Sort of.

Dreamweaver works fine. Later versions maybe better than former. That would be a reasonable presumption.

Dreamweaver is just software that you need to learn how to use. I figure I use about half of the capabilities of it after two years or more to do work in a fourth the time it would take without it. I think the stickiest part of the dreamweaver "experience" is that the 30 day trial doesn't give users enought time to learn it very well.

My pages validate (when I'm done with 'em ). The errors I find are my own doing and strangely, lie in the areas that I hand code..

HD - I think Laurie's given you a good starting point..