So, you want to take your business online, do you? Yet, you are, as we say in the south, standing there “like a calf looking at a new gate.” You know you probably ought to go through it, but you’re not sure what you’ll find when you get on the other side.
Insight: Failure and Success In Online Business
Creativity and Determination are the KEY ingredients in all online success stories. So many times, as a moderator and participant in the net’s most active and lauded online marketing forum, The Internet Marketing Warriors, I have heard the same questions repeated by hopeful marketer after hopeful marketer. And mostly they begin with “How do I…?”
Creating an Online RSS News Aggregator with ASP.NET Part 4
Displaying the News Items for a Particular Syndication Feed
The next task that faces us is creating the DisplayNewsItems.aspx Web page. This page should display the titles of the news items in the selected syndication feed as hyperlinks such that when the hyperlink is clicked the description of the news item is shown in the bottom right frame. This task presents us with two primary challenges:
Creating an Online RSS News Aggregator with ASP.NET Part 1
With the rise of always-on Internet connections in homes and businesses, and the continued explosive growth of the World Wide Web and Internet-accessible applications, it is becoming more and more important for applications to be able to share data with each other. Sharing data among disparate platforms requires a platform-neutral data format that can be easily transmitted via standard Internet protocols-this is where XML fits in. Since XML files are essentially, simple text files with well-known encodings, and since there exist XML parsers for all commonly used programming languages, XML data can be easily consumed by any platform.
Creating an Online RSS News Aggregator with ASP.NET Part 3
Consuming a Syndication Feed in an ASP.NET Web Page
In order to test the syndication engine we just created, let’s build an online news aggregator that allows for any number of syndication feeds. The aggregator user interface will be fairly straightforward, comprising of three frames, as shown in Figure 2. In the left frame, a list of the various syndication feeds will be listed. In the top right frame, the news items for the selected syndication feed will be displayed. Finally, in the bottom right frame, the title and description of the selected news item feed will be displayed, with a link to the news item. Note that this UI is pretty much the de facto standard UI for aggregators of all kinds, including news aggregators, email clients and newsgroup readers.
Creating an Online RSS News Aggregator with ASP.NET Part 2
Creating the Syndication Output via an ASP.NET Web Page
Now that we’ve seen how our news items are stored along with the RSS 2.0 specification, we’re ready to create an ASP.NET Web page that, when requested, will return our Web site’s syndicated content. More specifically, we’ll create an ASP.NET Web page named rss.aspx that will return the five most recent news items from the Articles database table, formatted according to the RSS 2.0 specification.
You Can Do Business Online 201
If you read my 101 course, you now have a website and you have begun basic promotion. It is time to increase the traffic flow! Now is the time to increase links to your site. This serves you two purposes. Number one is the obvious, the more links, the more ways for people to find your site.
5 More Ways to Increase Traffic to Your Online Store
In a previous article, I discussed 5 free ways to increase traffic to your online store. If you have not read it, you can see it here:
5 Things to Think About for Online Business Success
Being successful and making millions in an online business, or any business for that matter, is a conscious effort to be successful and make money. “Of course I have that!” you say? But do you? We all want to be rich, but do you have what it takes to BE rich.
Total Sports Online Launches Megasoccer Search Engine
As part of its Megasearch Project, a project that makes use of the Fast Search & Transfer search technology, Total Sports Online ASA has launched MegaSoccer.com, a “topic-specific” search engine devoted to the world of soccer.