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Syndication

by

Philip Bromley

If you listen to the Experts and Gurus they will all tell you that to be
sucessful your website needs content. Fine but when you are starting out,
or even established, providing content is a time consuming business. You
write the content yourself or spend hours searching the net's FREE content
sites. That sadly is not the end for in order for your site to attract
visitor return or "Stickiness" you have to find fresh content on a regular
basis.

That sadly is just the begining of your problems as you now have the task
of adding this new content to your web site. almost certainly this will
involve some downtime for your site. There has to be a better way,and there
is! Before you are completely put off by my explanation try this experiment.
Paste the following code into Notepad or any other suitable text editor.
Save the file as an html page. I suggest you call the file syndication and
save it to your My Documents. Click on this html file and you will see one
of our test panels



Now if you are like me you will have had a sharp intake of breath at the
mention of javascript, don't panic and dismiss any thoughts of needing to
be a programmer. The whole of the basis of js files is a simple line of
code:

document.writeln('