An RSS Feed is a dynamically generated summary
(in XML format) of information or news published on other web
sites- so when the published RSS changes, your web site will
be automatically changed too.
It is a rather simple technology that allows
you, the humble web page designer, to have this content
displayed in your own web page,
without having to know a lick about XML!
Think
of it as a box you define on your web page that is able to
update itself, whenever the source of the information changes,
your web page does too, without you having to do a single thing
to it. Ordinary people are already using this!
This Feed2JS web site provides you a free
service that can do all the hard work for you-- in 3 easy steps:
1. Find
the RSS source, the web address for the feed.
The key for finding the feeds is to look for the icons that
identify the RSS feeds, and rather than following the link,
right mouse click (Windows users) or control-click (Mac users)
to access the menu that allows you to Copy the URL
for the RSS feed. Sometimes they will be listed in an area
called "Syndication". But if you do click and see the ugly
XML code, do not worry! Just copy the web address from your
browser's URL field- that is all you need. It will look like any
other web address, except the last part may end in ".xml", ".rss",
".rdf", ".atom", or even other strange names.
2. Once you have the web
address (URL) for an RSS feed, and have validated it, you are
ready to build your display code to actually use
it
on your web site. Use our simple tool to
build
the JavaScript command that will display it
3. Optionally
style
it up to look pretty.
