The RSS news feed tutorial.

GoLiveCentral.comRSS ::Creating an RSS news feed - by Michael AhgrenAdding an RSS news feed to your site - by Michael AhgrenFirst let’s take a look at what RSS can do for you and the people who visit your site.If you have a page or a number of pages that you update frequently, then there are probably people who want to stay up to date with that information. Using RSS they can automatically monitor all changes without even visiting the site.What do you need to receive the RSS feed?You need either an RSS client, there are a number of free feed readers you can down-load, or a browser that supports RSS. Firefox is one of the browsers with RSS support. In Firefox you can create “active bookmarks” which is a type of feed subscriptions.Is it complicated to set up an RSS feed? No, you only need three things.• An XML document that contains all the data.• A link to that XML/RSS document.• Another link to the XML/RSS document, this one goes into the head section of your html code.The XML.Let’s start by taking a look at the XML document. First some information for those of you who haven’t worked with XML, XML looks very much like HTML, but it’s much stricter and you can create “your own” tags. There must always be a start and an end tag!Here is an example of an XML/RSS document:http://www.GoLiveCentral.com/GoLiveCentral.com news channel. ...