IkanCyoursoul
Number of posts: 160
Registration date: 2007-06-14
 |  Subject: Help  Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:53 pm | |
| This is the smartest board I know, so maybe someone out there can help me. What is a RSS feed? I looked it up and I still don't get it. Can some one explain it to me as if I was mentally retarded? Also, how do I go about getting my site as a RSS feed? Yahoo, for example will only work with RSS feeds. |
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A_Str8
Number of posts: 865
Localisation: Philadelphia
Registration date: 2006-12-29
| | Subject: Re: Help Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:09 pm | |
| I don't have much time now, but I'll post on this later tonight. What is the site you're trying to turn into an RSS feed? |
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A_Str8
Number of posts: 865
Localisation: Philadelphia
Registration date: 2006-12-29
| | Subject: Re: Help Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:40 am | |
| | IkanCyoursoul wrote: | | What is a RSS feed? |
RSS is a standard way for sites to make content available. It's most suitable for sites that regularly publish new material - like blogs, news sites, etc. Because the information is put out in a standard way, other folks can design different ways to read the info. As long as the reader understands the standard, you can use it to view the info instead of going to the site.
For example, say you have a blog. You post to your blog every day. A reader of your blog has to visit your site every day to see if you put anything new up. Now, add RSS. Now, they can use an RSS reader to view your blog. Readers give people options - some run as programs on your desktop, some are web-based so you can access them from anywhere. In an RSS Reader, people who subscribe to your blog will see it as a list of entries. In most readers, when someone's read an article, that article is marked as "read", so it's easy to keep track of what's new.
Imagine this scenario when that person who reads your blog also reads 10 others. With RSS, that person can visit 1 site or run 1 program instead of visiting 11 individual sites. It helps you too because maybe that person would not have remembered to go back to your site if he hadn't subscribed.
| Quote: | | Also, how do I go about getting my site as a RSS feed? |
This depends on what your site is. If it's just a static site that doesn't change much, RSS won't do much for it. If it's a blog, most blogging sites automatically generate RSS links. You just need to find the link. If it's a website with news items it depends on how you're posting your news. I use a premade script to post news and automatically generate an rss feed
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IkanCyoursoul
Number of posts: 160
Registration date: 2007-06-14
| | Subject: Good Looking out! Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:28 pm | |
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