This article teaches you how to create an RSS feed for your website. All you need is a text editor. Take a look at the following script,
rss version=\"2.0\"
channel
title
My Website
/title
link
http://www.abc.com
/link
description
My Website
/description
item
title
New Feed
/title
description
My first feed
/description
link
http://www.abc.com/xyz.html
/link
/item
/channel
/rss
The first tag
rss
, specifies the RSS version standard you are going to use. I have used '2.0'. Remember, since this script has its roots in XML, we have to use a closing
/rss
tag at the end. The
channel
tag is used to describe your feed, its description and its website URL.
Next comes the most imporant tag,
item
. These tags actually pertain to the headline you want visitors to notice. Every headline has its own
item
tag. The
title
will specify the headline, the
description
will specify a short introduction to the article, and the
link
will provide a hyperlink to the article itself. Remember to keep on deleting old headlines as you keep on adding new ones, lest your feed becomes too heavy.
Other than these basic tags, you can also include some optional tags. If you want a website icon or logo with your feed, include an image field like this,
image
title
My feed
/title
url
http://www.abc.com/picture.gif
/url
link
http://www.abc.com
/link
/image
Now you've got to save the script. Since this is nothing but an XML file, include
?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" ?
as the first line in your document. Now save this file with an XML extension, say something like \"firstfeed.xml\". The final step is to include the following line of code into the header section of your HTML page,
link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application/rss+xml\" title=\"My Feed\" href=\"http://www.abc.com/firstfeed.xml\"
That's it, that is all you need to make your own RSS feed. Feed readers like RSSOwl and browsers like Firefox will now be able to read the headlines you include in the
item
tag.
This article was originally published by CyberArmy.net in the CyberArmy Library.
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