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TexasWebDevelopers -> RE: how to make RSS notifications??? (5/25/2009 12:09:43)
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At its most simple you manually update an xml page in this format:
quote:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<channel>
<title>Your Feed Title</title>
<atom:link href="http://www.yoursite.com/yourfeed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
<link>http://www.yoursite.com/</link>
<description>Feed description goes here</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<lastBuildDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:08:57 GMT</lastBuildDate>
<webMaster>you@yoursite.com (firstname lastname)</webMaster>
<item>
<title>Title of article</title>
<link>http://www.yoursite.com/page.htm</link>
<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.yoursite.com/articlepage.htm</guid>
<description>One of the most visited examples of our site is the blah, blah, blah...</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
<title>Title of previous article</title>
<link>http://www.yoursite.com/page2.htm</link>
<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.yoursite.com/articlepage2.htm</guid>
<description>Article previous the blah, blah, blah...</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
Save it (like the example code) as "yourfeed.xml" and upload it. The link to the xml page is now your feed. Add additional items by replicating the format of the <item></item> tags.
After uploading the xml page validate the feed using http://feedvalidator.org/
Now, a cautionary tale: We have seen our RSS feed use drop almost to zero as more and more folks use Twitter. We use both but Twitter has become the more useful tool.
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