We can now provide RSS feeds for your website to let your visitors know, the moment you make any changes to your site.
We can also capture information from RSS feeds to add content to your website. A common choice is the BBC news feed which we ourselves use on our homepage.
You will have seen the logo to the right on many websites. If you dont know about RSS read the description below (courtesty of
whatisrss.com)
What is RSS?
RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content.Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.
Why RSS? Benefits and Reasons for using RSS
RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to
easily stay informed by retrieving summaries of the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You
save time by not needing to visit each site individually. You
ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each site's email newsletter. The number of sites offering RSS feeds is growing rapidly and includes big names like
Yahoo News and
Amazon.com.
What do I need to do to read an RSS Feed? RSS Feed Readers and News Aggregators
Feed Reader or News Aggregator software allow you to grab the RSS feeds from various sites and display them for you to read and use.
A
variety of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. Some popular feed readers include
Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac),
FeedReader (Windows), and
NewsGator (Windows - integrates with Outlook).
Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a matter of finding
sites that syndicate content and adding their RSS feed to the list of feeds your Feed Reader checks. Many sites display a small icon with the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is available.
RSS Links: More information on RSS
