Friday, June 3, 2011

Way to Create RSS Feeds

What is RSS?

can you define what is RSS. RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’.It is a XML based data format which is used to syndicate (i.e. contribute) the contents of a web page esp. dynamic web page.OK if this is rss then what is rss feeds.

What is RSS feed?

RSS feed is the syndicated content itself. it is an XML file which contains channel information and and one or more items of a website. These items are generally the news items of a website or blog. Each item contains item’s heading, item’s description, a link back to the full contents of the item, publication date of the item and GUID element (which uniquely defines each item). An item can contain many more elements. But for the sake of simplicity we will stick to the aforesaid elements.

How to Create RSS feeds?

1. Open notepad
2. Copy paste the following code and then customize the code in bold to meet your requirement:


3. Save the file as my-rss.xml
4. Upload the file on your web server.
5. Validate your RSS feed using feedvalidator.org