Introduction...

Auto HTML-RSS Update is a utility that will read an xml (RSS feed) page, convert the RSS data to HTML, and import it in to an existing web page. This will allow you to create web pages that will always display the most current information from your RSS feed, and since the resulting page is HTML, it can be easily included into any existing HTML page - web search engines will see your page as dynamic and update their records accordingly. 

There is no installation file, just extact this .zip in a folder, and run autwebup.exe.

Required files:
autwebup.exe - the executible
autwebup.ini - all settings are stored here
readINI.dll - used to access autwebup.ini
Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 or higher

Other Files:
Auto HTML-RSS Update.htm - Web page describing this program
gyro.ico - Auto HTML-RSS Update Icon
htmldesc.html - Small sample web page, the program is set to update 2 
	links on this page when it is started the first time
redblueyelltn_.jpg, whiteback.gof, whitehome.gif, image1.jpg & 
	image2.jpg - images for Auto HTML-RSS Update.htm

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How it works...

1. Click Modify/View Url List

2. Modify the first entry, or click "Add" to add a new RSS feed.

3. Change the "RSS URL to aquire XML document" to the address of the RSS feed you want to extract

4. Change the "Tag to insert HTML code after" to a tag you will add to the HTML page you want to add the RSS feed links to.

5. Change the "HTML Document to insert code" to the HTML page you want to add the RSS feed links.

6. Select any options you want to be displayed with the links:
	Include Description - Adds the description for the link if
	available in the RSS file 
	
	Include Date and Time - This will add the date and time of 
	the link if available in the RSS file 
	
	Add a Blank Line - Adds an HTML line feed '<br>' to each link 
	
	Add a bullet to each link - This option will add a bullet 
	'' before each link

7. Enter the # of links to include on your page.  If there are fewer links in the RSS feed than you enter here, all the links will be diaplyed.

8. Click "Active"  If Active is not checked, Auto RSS to HTML will skip to the next entry.

9. Click "Save"

Now, you have to add the tags to your HTML document.  Open the HTML file, and add the tags wherever you want the links displayed.  Make sure to include the close tag also.  

Example:  

<testlink>
</testlink>

The tags must be the only text on the line.  If you enter 

<testlink></testlink>

the program will skip over it.

Save the HTML file.

Click "Refresh Now" to tell Auto RSS to HTML to add the links to your page. 
 
If you want to update the page automatically, enter the time between updates in the "Update page every ... minutes" and click "Start Auto Update"

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Contact Information...

This software is free to try, the only restriction is that it only allows 4 RSS feeds to be included on your HTML page.  Ths purchase price is $35.00 through PayPal and includes all updates.  

Version 2 is currently being tested at the time this file is being written (July 19th 2005) and will include FTP support to update pages hosted on a remote server.  This version (1.0) only supports local page access.  You must have local access to the directory the pages are stored through a lan or on the machine this program is executed.

Version 2.0 is currently updating 4 web pages with a total of 30 RSS feeds.
3 pages are on my web server, and 1 page is hosted by 0catch.com (a free web hosting service)  

The URLs are:
http://www.theblattners.com/home.html
http://www.theblattners.com/currentnews.html
http://www.theblattners.com/GeorgiaTraffic.html
http://www.eddiestestpage.0catch.com/index.html

For information on this program, email autorss@theblattners.com