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Nimble RSS Page Design/Development, PHP, AJAX Visit the page

I was discussing with a friend that, at the time, there were very few web-based RSS aggregators that were simple to use. From this discussion sparked my idea for this application. I wanted to make an easy-to-use aggregator/reader that also allowed for searching.

The design for the page was very simple and minimalistic; less is more for something like this. What I needed to do was create a method for me to allow a user to input a website, RSS link, or search term and display the appropriate data. After much work and debugging I finally had something.

When you visit the page there are really three ways to view feeds:
1) Enter in the exact feed link (ex: http://www.lifehacker.com/index.xml)
2) Enter in the website you'd like to check if a feed exists (ex: http://www.lifehacker.com)
3) Enter in a search term you'd like to do a Google search for (ex: lifehacker)

I created this page with valid XHTML and valid CSS, utilizing Javascript, XML and PHP to actively display information on the screen.