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How to Create an RSS Feed |
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Alan Levine (District Office) alan.levine@domail.maricopa.edu |
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Use an online tool to generate a Rich Site Summary (RSS) feed for any web site |
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Rich Site Summary (RSS) is a type of XML structure that can be used to "syndicate", or share information about a particiular web site (see web refrence below for more on RSS). It is well-suited for catalog or annotated resource collections. This is not somthing one should compose manually- A number of systems (the MLX, weblogs) generate these files automatically. This package describes a simple way to use a tool to create and later modify your own RSS files. Here is a scenario: My name is Big Al, and I am going to develop a web site that covers the wide open field of educational technology. And I am going to create an RSS feed from my site so others can quickly get the latest updates through their RSS news aggregator. Step 1: Go to the WebReference RSS Editor. For a new Feed, I enter the appropriate stuff about me and my site under "Channel Summary" (about 1/3 the way down the form). I also add one or two new RSS items under the "New Items" at the top. All you need is a title, a link to the site the RSS item refers to, and a blurb. To create your first RSS file.. Click any of the "Build RSS" buttons. Volia! You should see a pile of XML code. This is your RSS file. Save this file directly from your web browser as XXXXX.rss, Big Al's is called "kewl.rss". Step 2: Now you should move this file to a permament spot on your web site, so it has a unique URL, say http://www.big_al.com/news/kewl.rss (Since Big Al is having trouble registering his domain, we are holding this play version at: http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/kewl.rss Step 3: Once your RSS file exists on the web, you can use the RSS Editor to pluck the current information. Just go back to the WebReference RSS Editor and this time, enter the URL for your RSS file into the RSS URl field at the top and click the "Fetch" button (You can use the URL above to play with) Now the form is populated with the current RSS content, and you can modify any of the items, channel summary, and enter New Items as appropriate. After any changes, click any of the "Build RSS" buttons, save the file again, and move it to your server. Step 4: Of course, Big Al needs a link to his feed, so somewhere on your site, make a "Symdicate" link using the XML orange icon (see below) and just build a hyerptext link from the icon to the URL for your RSS feed. Note! As a professional courtesy to the owner of this package, if you use some aspect of this package or have some thoughts about it, please share your feedback via the comments form below. |
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http://www.webreference.com/cgi-bin/perl/rssedit.pl http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/archives/000098.html http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/kewl.rss http://www.downes.ca/files/RSS_Educ.htm http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=2010 |
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XML icon (image) Note! As a professional courtesy to the owner of this package, if you use some aspect of this package or have some thoughts about it, please share your feedback below. |
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Most recent comment about this package:
On Sun Jul 30, 2006 at 1:36AM Dim@serbin.com <dim@serbin.com> said: |
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A "Shareback" cites the places on the web that mention, reference, or use this MLX package, and "shares" that information back here (more about shareback...) Most recent shareback for this package:How to Build and RSS Feed Sharebacks can be generated automatically by weblog tools. |
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