RSS & How to Use It (part 1)
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 19:44:30
So rather than try and create a definitive explanation of RSS this article will tell you how to use it. I guarantee once youve done so everything will that much clearer.
To show. I will relate how to read a site feed for my website. The bite Blog. Dont confuse RSS with blogs (web logs). They are two separate concepts. The only reason you see them together so often is that blogs are the perfect website to take advantage of site feeds. More on that later. Here we go
Click on thisto go the place feed for The Nettle Blog. Ignore the circumscribe in the window just make a say of the URL in the web address bar. It should read:
The next step is to use an RSS reader to make sense of the place feed. There are lots of these available and if you are a heavy user you would probably want to purchase a nice piece of software.
Select "ADD" enter the URL you copied and hit "Subscribe". You can preview the results but skip that stage for now. Select "Subscribe" again and the title of the site feed will be transferred to the left-hand window.
To read it just click on the title and you can view all the messages in that feed within a selected time period. The cater will most likely record news related to the website the feed belongs to.
In this dilate the site feed to The Nettle Blog records each new entry to my communicate. If you find something of interest most entries have a clickable link you can follow.
Anytime you find a website you like with a site feed make a note of the URL for that site feed and add it to your Bloglines folder.
In the left-hand column of your account is an "Extras" enumerate. Select Download Notifier and choose the correct file to download the Bloglines Notifier This file is only 100k so any half-decent connection should complete the download in just a few seconds.
If the transfer is successful you should see a small color icon with the earn "B". Double-clicking it will short-cut you to Bloglines.
Right-click on the icon and you can adjust the settings. contract how often you want Bloglines to check messages for you.
When Bloglines checks your site feeds and finds that one or more have been updated a little chime will play and the Bloglines icon will show a little red marker. This means one of the feeds you have subscribed to has something new to say.
So there you undergo it. A spam-free hassle-free way to keep track of websites you have an interest in. Providing of course that they have a site feed. If they dont ask them why not.
Part two of this.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://dcjthur.blogspot.com/2007/11/rss-how-to-use-it-part-1.html
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