RSS feed?

[bin_asc]

I`ve seen many articles about RSS feeds on the net but I still don`t know waht it is and how to use it.Pls help me out.Thank you.

[Conor]

Ok. Really Simple Syndication is a bunch of .xml pages that are used to show the latest news, results, whatever. You can use them on your site to show the latest of whatever you want to show.

For example: Say I wanted to display the sports results from Ireland. I would go to RTE.ie and find their sports RSS page.

http://www.rte.ie/rss/sport.xml

I would then enter it into my Mambo newsfeeds section.

http://conor-omuiri.com/index/index....id=11&Itemid=7

Now, whenever RTE updated that page, it would update on my newsfeeds page too.

A little bit more your you:

1. What is RSS?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it is a very effective way of keeping up-to-date with the latest information on the RTE.ie website. Rather than visit our site to find out if new content has been added, RSS will tell you when the new stories that you want are available by delivering them directly to you.

2. Getting started with RSS?
Generally, the first thing you need is a ready-made programme called a newsreader, which is no harder to use than email or web browsers. Most newsreaders are applications that are downloaded from the Web and installed on your computer.

There are many different types of newsreaders available for download (remember to select a newsreader that will work with your operating system):

Windows
- Newz Crawler
- FeedDemon
- Awasu

Mac OS X
- Newsfire
- NetNewsWire

If you don't want to download newsreader software, you can simply visit a website that acts as a reader such as www.feedster.com or my.yahoo.com

Finally, there are some browsers, including Firefox and Opera, which automatically detect RSS feeds for you and also allow you to "bookmark" them. More details are available on their websites.

[n4tec]

try reading about RSS FEEDS below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol)

[digitalfarm]

But how do you get them to work on a normalwebsite without mambo?

[Conor]

you need is a ready-made programme called a newsreader, which is no harder to use than email or web browsers. Most newsreaders are applications that are downloaded from the Web and installed on your computer.

[tjgillies]

www.bloglines.com is the best newsreader