RSS Feeds
What Is The Orange
or
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 FeedReader3 news reader:
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You are now ready to add your first feed.
As an example I'll walk you through the process of adding my site
http://www.scenery.org 's XML feed. 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.
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!
Subscribe Now!
...with web-based news readers. Click your choice in the column on the right
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