Description

NewsGator Online's Blogroll feature can be used to provide a list of your subscriptions on your own website.

Three values are passed in the Blogroll script:

• $xmlurl$ - URL of the feed
• $link$ - HTML hyperlink for the feed
• $title$ - Title of the feed

By default, the Blogroll template is configured to provide links to feed URLs instead of websites:

 <a href="$xmlurl$" target="_blank">$title$</a><br/>

If you want to point to the actual website, and not the feed, you can change the template to use the $link$ value instead of $xmlurl$ value:

 <a href="$link$" target="_blank">$title$</a><br/>

The template also supports customization in the HTML. If, for example, you want to output the blogroll in an unordered list, you could change it to:

 <li><a href="$link$" target="_blank">$title$</a></li>

Then, on your webpage, you would place the script call within unordered list tags:

 <ul>
 <script src="http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/Blogroll.aspx?uid=#####&mid=##"></script>
 </ul>

Other examples of customization you can make include adding Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) attributes to the HTML, for example:

 <li class="ngblogroll"><a href="$link$" target="_blank">$title$</a></li>

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Although the default behavior of the blogroll to point to RSS feed URLs is useful for someone who wants to pick and choose feeds to subscribe to, another option to share your subscription list is to publish your feeds as an OPML which your visitors can use to import the entire list in one pass. See INF: How to publish/share your subscriptions (OPML)