Syndicating web sites with RSS feeds for dummies by Ellen Finkelstein

By Ellen Finkelstein

So that you have a company and you have got an internet site. Bravo! you are doing all of the correct issues to achieve success. yet wait, the knowledge in your site has to be up to date, and your buyers want to know. stable heavens, did not you spend 1/2 final week doing that? there is received to be a swifter, more uncomplicated approach to preserve your customers expert, and whereas we are at it, how approximately development your corporation too? hide -- commitment -- Author's Acknowledgments -- Contents at a look -- desk of Contents -- Foreword -- half I: Controlling the knowledge Explosion -- bankruptcy 1: RSS within the conversation Revolution -- all over the place a knowledge -- Getting an outline of RSS -- Exploring the Friendship of running a blog and RSS -- Envisioning the place RSS Is at the present time ... and the next day -- knowing the benefits of RSS for Subscribers -- Exploring the benefits of RSS for Publishers -- utilizing RSS at your organization -- bankruptcy 2: picking an RSS Feed Reader -- picking out the kind of Reader -- picking an internet carrier -- opting for software program -- bankruptcy three: Subscribing to RSS Feeds -- discovering information Feeds -- Getting the Feed into Your Reader -- utilizing Your RSS Reader -- Unsubscribing to RSS Feeds -- Getting RSS in your PDA or cellular phone -- half II: constructing nice RSS content material -- bankruptcy four: utilizing RSS to unfold Your weblog -- Bloggers Unite! -- making a web publication -- making a web publication together with your HTML Editor -- protecting Your web publication -- Publicizing Your weblog with RSS -- bankruptcy five: Writing for effects -- picking out an viewers -- utilizing complete textual content or hyperlinks? -- determining What you need to Say -- discovering content material assets -- including price -- utilizing RSS to marketplace Your website -- making a site in keeping with RSS Feeds -- half III: Launching Your RSS Feed -- bankruptcy 6: developing Your First Feed -- realizing the codecs -- Optimizing Your web site for RSS -- growing an RSS Feed the straightforward method -- enhancing Your Feed ' repeatedly -- studying Your First Feed ' eventually! -- bankruptcy 7: growing RSS Feeds from Scratch -- First, what's XML? -- figuring out the RSS dossier constitution -- developing your individual RSS dossier -- Taking Your Feed for a try out force -- bankruptcy eight: Automating RSS construction -- opting for an automatic RSS device -- changing e mail to RSS -- utilizing complex instruments -- bankruptcy nine: Podcasting: including Multimedia to RSS Feeds -- knowing Podcasting -- Receiving a Podcast -- hearing a Podcast -- making a Podcast -- checking out extra approximately Podcasting -- half IV: Getting the main Out of RSS Feeds -- bankruptcy 10: Incorporating top Practices -- Validating All Feeds -- assisting the expertise -- maintaining thus far on codecs -- Staying on subject -- utilizing the constitution on your virtue -- Being well timed -- bankruptcy eleven: selling Your Feed -- Registering Your Feed with Directories -- Linking on your Feed -- Getting Auto-Discovered -- Explaining simply What RSS Is -- Telling Others All approximately Your Feed -- protecting Your e mail e-newsletter -- Branding Your Feed -- bankruptcy 12: putting information Feeds in your website -- Republishing RSS Feeds in your website -- picking out a know-how to transform RSS to an online web page -- utilizing RSS-to-Web-Site instruments -- half V: The a part of Tens -- bankruptcy thirteen: Ten most sensible RSS Readers -- AmphetaDesk -- Bloglines -- FeedDemon -- Feedster -- NewsGator -- NewzCrawler -- Plucky Pluck -- RssReader -- basic Subscribing with SharpReader -- Yahoo! -- extra and Ever M

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In addition, companies need to advise these parties as changes are made. This combination of maintaining a permanent record and the need to inform everybody about updates can be time consuming and expensive. When you store policies and procedures on paper, usually in binders, updating them is a real chore. Lately, companies have been using e-mail to advise people about changes, but e-mail is not a good way to store permanent information, and people often don’t print that new page and insert it in the binder.

The site maintains your feeds in a database. When you log on, you see only your feeds. com), a free, popular Web-based RSS/Atom reader. Figure 2-1: Bloglines lets you read RSS feeds in your browser. com). NewsIsFree sounds like the cry of a bunch of revolutionaries, and I give it my vote for the most appealing Web site name. , which has embraced RSS in a big way. At its My Yahoo! com), you can now subscribe to RSS feeds and put them front and center on your My Yahoo! site. Figure 2-2 shows my page at My Yahoo!.

I discuss browser-based services in Chapter 2. A couple of stand-alone readers integrate your feeds into your e-mail program. This is another possible future direction. As you can see from Figure 1-1, most readers look similar to e-mail programs. The three-pane layout is efficient for reading feeds. Perhaps e-mail programs will begin to include the ability to read RSS feeds. 21 22 Part I: Controlling the Information Explosion With mixed feelings, I must report that people are trying to figure out how to include ads in RSS feeds.

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