Adding a blog to my site

[jasonweb]

Hiya, I have just recently started up a blog JasonCarton.com and I want to add the content to my own personal site automatically including the blog archive and about me box, what is the easiest way of doing this please.

[DaveSawers]

Save the entire pages from BlogSpot on your computer, check the links (changing them as necessary) and then upload them onto your own URL.

If you want to do it automatically, you should be able to write a script to replicate what you do manually. If you're not into scripting though it's probably not worth the effort.

[jasonweb]

Originally Posted by DaveSawers

Save the entire pages from BlogSpot on your computer, check the links (changing them as necessary) and then upload them onto your own URL.

If you want to do it automatically, you should be able to write a script to replicate what you do manually. If you're not into scripting though it's probably not worth the effort.

I'm sure there's a better way to do it than to copy and paste it all manually. I'm looking to have the archiving facility of the Blog as well. Is the scripting hard to do? I've done some java-scripting before if that's what it takes. I could leave a layer in css empty to take the blog entries.

[DaveSawers]

The problem is that what you need to do is:

Go to the BlogSpot site.
Download files to your local computer.
Make changes to those files to replace headers and stuff so they fit in with your own website.
Upload the files to your site.

This requires you to use FTP from one site, do some editing locally and FTP to another site. This is not something that can be done easily programmatically.

The scripting I'm talking about (depending on your operating system) is like what is introduced here: Scripting Guide for Windows which can automate tasks you would normally do manally.

[jasonweb]

What I need to do is to create an RSS feed which I have automatically update on the homepage of my website within a css layer or table. I know it can be done with WordPress, but I'm not too sure if it can be done with Blogspot.

[dharrison]

Hi Jason

It can all be done in blogger.com. The RSS Feed, publishing on your own site, everything. I started mine in 2005 and on the 2nd post moved it to my own site.

On signing in to blogger.com, go into Manage: Settings and click the Publishing tag.

From there, you can add your FTP details so blogger does it all for you, you may have to create the separate folders on the server first but blogger is quite forgiving. on hitting publish it should publish everything.

The "Site Feed tag" sets all your RSS settings, but also check out Add This! Social Bookmark and Feed Button - Web2.0 Social Media Optimization which leaves a pretty nifty multi-purpose feed button on your site and if you're not all that sure on the RSS feeds on Blogger, FeedBurner - Blogs which does most of the donkey work for you including ping and analysis of what gets read etc.

HTH. Let me know how you get on, either here or PM.

[jasonweb]

Thanks Deb, I tried using that FTP publishing JasonCarton.com: August 2007, but that's not what I was looking for at all. It was supposed to replace my homepage but that didn't happen.

Anyway that's not really what I want. I want the content of my blog and the archiving to appear within a table on my newly designed site.

I did use feed burner but now that I've changed my setting that feed seems to be gone.

Please could you help me get my content and archiving into a layer or table on my new site.