rss news feed for homepage

[antechinus]

Ok, so I create the block and switch it on, put the feed address into the window in "Edit", go to the front page and there's no feed showing. The block is there, including its title, but it's empty. What have I missed?

[Smoky]

is the rss site where you are getting it from down?? 

[antechinus]

Nope, coz if I put the feed address straight into my browser's address bar it shows up fine.

I'll try another feed just to make sure.

[antechinus]

Bother. Just tried Reuters and it works perfectly. Must be a problem with the other site then. Funny coz I can get there with Firefox, like I said.

Anyway I have Reuters, which is one of the main ones I wanted. Btw Lesmond, those settings you suggested didn't work well for me. What happened is that the front page blocks were both duplicated and jumbled up.

I used

"How frontblocks will be shown: >>>>>> Normal, frontblocks are shown alone."  and

"What to show on front page: >>>>>> Front page blocks."

[antechinus]

Ok, there's just one leeetle thing.......................as always.

Is there any way of configuring the feed so that it opens the story in a new tab instead of using the existing one?

[Smoky]

might want to check this thread Antechinus

http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=18942.0

[Zetan]

or this post: http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=8472.msg180351#msg180351

[Smoky]

i forgot that one Ztn lol.. and i just read it what?? an hour ago?? heck i dont.. but it's interesting.. 

[Zetan]

It's what I use on my site.. it's pretty good

[antechinus]

Cool trick, but I don't want to mess with the Reuters header in case they get grumpy, which means I'd be up for a fair bit of messing with the css. I'll put it on the back burner for now. Cheers.