For a dataview web part created in FrontPage to consume an RSS feed but get "The Web Part has timed out", then:

  1. Modify the web part.
  2. From Miscellaneous, select the Cache type of "Shared for All Users".
  3. Set the time-out (seconds) to say 5 seconds.
  4. Tick "Cache XSLT transform".

This should then hopefully resolve the time out issue, if not, try increasing the time out value, and checking the RSS feed works (open the RSS URL in your browser). Also check your file is not blocking content.

Alternatively, install a 3rd party RSS web part component, such as:

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2004/02/23/78231.aspx

or

http://smilinggoat.net/stuff.aspx