RSS Feed
09/07/06 13:05 Filed in: Work
Many major news organizations, community Web
sites and personal weblogs offer headlines and
article summaries in the form of news feeds using
a technology called RSS. RSS-aware programs,
called news aggregators, can help you keep up
with all your favorite weblogs by checking their
RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of
them. iTunes, Transistr, NewsFire are among the
many popular news aggregators in widespread use.
You may specify how many words from each of your blog entries should be included in your RSS feed (from one to fifty words) by selecting the checkbox labeled "Summarize text in RSS Entries" at the bottom of the pane, and moving the slider left or right as needed. The number of words will be shown to the right of the slider. If your blog entries use summaries, the number of words included in any blog entry's RSS feed will be lesser of the length of the blog entry's summary or the number of words set here.
TIP #1: You can replace the standard "RSS
Feed" text link that appears in your page's side
bar with a clickable graphic by using the HTML
1. Upload your preferred graphic file to your webserver. In this case, let's say your website is "www.mywebsite.com", and you've uploaded a button image named "rss.jpg" to your "images" directory.
2. In your blog page, click the "Setup..." button.
3. On the "RSS Feed" pane, replace the text in the "RSS Link Name" field with the HTML code:
4. After confirming you have properly configured your Setup... panes so that RSS will work properly, publish your blog page.
Blog - Setup: RSS Feed Tab
So that RSS news aggregators (including Podcast receivers) can subscribe to your blog page, you must enable RSS feeds for your blog page. You may also configure your blog page so that it generates RSS entries only for the indvidual blog posts that appear on your main blog page, and not for any archived blog entries, by checking the box "Generate entries for main page only".You may specify how many words from each of your blog entries should be included in your RSS feed (from one to fifty words) by selecting the checkbox labeled "Summarize text in RSS Entries" at the bottom of the pane, and moving the slider left or right as needed. The number of words will be shown to the right of the slider. If your blog entries use summaries, the number of words included in any blog entry's RSS feed will be lesser of the length of the blog entry's summary or the number of words set here.
TIP #1: You can replace the standard "RSS
Feed" text link that appears in your page's side
bar with a clickable graphic by using the HTML
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tag. Here's how:
1. Upload your preferred graphic file to your webserver. In this case, let's say your website is "www.mywebsite.com", and you've uploaded a button image named "rss.jpg" to your "images" directory.
2. In your blog page, click the "Setup..." button.
3. On the "RSS Feed" pane, replace the text in the "RSS Link Name" field with the HTML code:
4. After confirming you have properly configured your Setup... panes so that RSS will work properly, publish your blog page.
TIP #2: If you want to enable your RSS feed without displaying a link in your page's sidebar, leave the "RSS Link Name" field on the "RSS Feed" pane empty.
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