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ruslan35 · **Date:** Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:30 pm **Subject:** RSS feed on your website

Hello,

I recently decided to create a RSS feed on my website. This should be a good way to make it convinient for some of my users and maybe even earn me a few links down the road.

After a few hours on the web I read a lot of info about the feeds, but i failed to learn how to actually make one. I run a dedicated server for my website, so i have somewhat freedom as far as what applications i can use.

Can anyone explaine what would be the best way to implement this idea, and what tags and other important things i should use in my feeds. Thanks.

bgetting · **Date:** Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:59 pm **Subject:** No problem...

That wouldn't be a problem at all. However, it would help to know a bit more information about what you are trying to do.

Is the content that you will be syndicating with your feed held in a database (dynamic content) or is it coded directly into your html pages (static content)?

What type of server side scripting do you have available to you and are you comfortable developing in (ASP, PHP, etc)?

Once we find that out, I can help you construct a feed. To get a sample feed file (which is simply an XML text file) you can do a google search for "RSS feed sample" and you should be able to find one pretty well. Atom feeds and RSS feeds are basically the same. Once you have a template you simply need to decide what tags you want to use (above and beyond the required ones) and how you are going to go about putting your content into that feed.

In addition, you will need to make sure that the feed content is properly encoded, which can be a hassle. However, if you can provide some more info we can help you through it.

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