Hello,

I have a simple static html website with a few pages. In addition I have a blog.

I would like for the frontpage of the html site to show the most recent posts from the blog RSS feed. Can this be done?

I am quite new to html coding, so I don't even know if it's possible.

I don't think it can be done with HTML alone.

Try reading up on a few of these pages.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...G=Search&meta=

Not with hmtl alone. I believe you can pull RSS feeds in with javascript alone, but the better option is to use a server side language like PHP.

Usually, you'd need to use a server side scripting language like PHP to load the RSS file and parse data from it.
RSS feeds are just a form of XML, so it might be possible to do it with XSLT stylesheets, though I don't know how well that would work out (XSLT is used to transform XML formats into other XML based formats such as XHTML or Atom feeds).

Thanks for the input, guys. I will be doing some reading on PHP then.

I searched for quite a while for something that would simply display an RSS feed on a webpage. Seems trickier than first imagined but depending on the feed there are different elements of the xml to show. In the end I used one of feedburner's tools to help me display it using javascript.