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What Is The Orange XML icon or RSS icon Icons I See More and More On Web Sites?

This question does not have a one sentence answer! If I just said that one uses this icon to get a site's RSS feed, you still won't understand. So let's try and answer you in such a way that it all makes sense to you and, more importantly, that you learn how to benefit from it.

Let's say that you like my web site very much and you would like to read new content as I add it. At this stage there is no way of informing you when I've added a new page except for notifying you by Newsletter via e-mail. This assumes that you've provided me with your e-mail address - which most people are hesitant to do any way. The other way is for you to bookmark my site - but how many times do people really go back to a site?

What if I told you that you could have a little "window" (called a reader or an aggregator) on your monitor and that, each time I updated my site, you are automatically informed about it. How, you may ask? A headline (called a news feed) and a short summary to inform/tease you is squirted to your reader. If the teaser interests you, all you need to do is follow the hyperlink that will take you to that page on my web site where you can read it all. If you're not interested, you simply delete the headline. The process is repeated each time I add new content.

You can of course subscribe to as many feeds as you want to - from current affairs to people's personal blogs (a blog is short for web log which is a diary or a journal on the internet).

So, what must you do to set it up and how much is it going to cost?

Let's answer the second question first: Setting it up is FREE - it will cost you nothing.

To optimize the delivery and display of SHOF’s free RSS news feeds, we recommend you use RSSReader news reader:

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You are now ready to add your first SHOF feed.

Scenery.org currently provides a number of RSS feeds, including:

As an example I'll walk you through the process of adding my site http://www.scenery.org 's XML feeds. Navigate to our site. On the home page you will see the orange XML / RSS icons. Click through to Why RSS? (this page) find your XML / RSS feeds of interest and then click the "Copy Shortcut" option.

Open the RSSReader (above) and click on the green "+ Add" icon in the top left hand corner. A form opens up that prompts you to enter the URL of the feed. Just paste the URL here (ctrl-v). Well done - you've just added your very first RSS feed.

Let's test if it is working. Click the "Get" icon which is to the left of the "+Add" icon. You should see a number of feeds arriving in your reader. Simply double-click the ones you are interested in to read the summary. Click the "Read more" or "Open in a Browser" links if you want to read the whole article.

Was it that difficult? No, I agree, it's fairly straight forward.

Now you are ready to sign up for more feeds. Why not sign up for my Design Studio News as well? There I share our programs, utilities, tutorials, tips and books that I have found useful for scenery design. Note: You can read the *.htm version of the current Design Studio News here or the archived news via the photo below.

SHOF - "Design Studio News" Archive

If you're interested in following this exciting aspect of our Flight-sim community, just copy and paste this URL exactly as you did with the previous one.

http://www.scenery.org/rss_design_feed.xml

Congratulations - you have taken back control of your computer and entered the exciting world of RSS!

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