In response to user requests, I just released Moray, a script which uses CaRP and Grouper to filter and aggregate RSS feeds, and republish them in RSS 2.0 format. It’s a free download, and can be used with the free version of CaRP, but requires the commercial version of Grouper ($17.97 for a single user). […]

There’s something of an online lovefest underway for Chris Pirillo’s newly launched metasearch site, gada.be (pronounced “gotta be”, I believe). Since I can’t find anyone else mentioning this, I’ll blow my own horn. Unless things have changed since late last month, CaRP is the RSS processing engine under the hood. It’s one of the most […]

I’ve posted an Affiliate marketing example showing a way to create a search page for multiple affiliates programs. A few noteworthy notes:
1) The affiliate search results are displayed on your website so that if your visitor doesn’t find anything interesting in their searches, they’re still on your site.
2) Default search terms relevant to my target […]

I released a new product last weekend, Tetra, that integrates with my RSS to HTML conversion script (CaRP) to put RSS newsfeeds into a DHTML (JavaScript) scroller. Tetra supports AJAX, enabling dynamic updating of the scroller’s contents without requiring the webpage to be reloaded. A large number of feeds could be aggregated into one scroller, […]

Today I’m not talking about how RSS or Atom feeds can bring lots of traffic into your site, I’m honestly wondering where all the traffic to my site is coming from. Since some time around midnight last night, the CaRP homepage has been getting a lot more traffic than usual. Naturally, after happily noticing the […]

Two simple steps to higher search engine placement: “Search Engine Optimization doesn’t have to mean paying gobs of money to self-proclaimed professionals with questionable qualifications. Nor does it have to mean hiring an army of copywriters to fill your site with content. Two simple steps will boost your search engine ranking and give visitors a […]

The SOS Band may not have been thinking about web design when they recorded “Take Your Time (Do It Right)”, but that doesn’t mean we can’t apply their words to our craft. “Baby we can do it, take the time, do it right.” If you build your website right the first time, you’ll reap the […]

Support for the Atom format is growing, but it’s certainly not as extensive as support for RSS. Because of this, it is sometimes useful to be able to convert Atom feeds to RSS. If, for example, you are using CaRP to display RSS feeds on your website, and you find an Atom feed you’d like […]

Ever since I built CaRP to import news onto one of my websites (I wanted a way to keep it fresh without having to do any work myself), I’ve been using RSS feeds more and more to shuttle data around my sites. I added code to output RSS feeds from my discussion forums. I set […]