http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/ User submitted comments to Practical Ecommerce's article entitled Video Tutorial: Creating an RSS Feed en-us Copyright 2007 Confluence Publishing Wed, 21 May 2008 09:17:14 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/rss/ Practical Ecommerce v2.0.1 Ecommerce kmurdock@practicalecommerce.com bgetting@practicalecommerce.com 60 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment11262 Thanks for the awesome tutorial. This is jst what I was looking for. Wed, 21 May 2008 09:17:14 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment11262 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment8783 Hello, I do not have Dreamweaver. Can I use a simple .txt file? What would the process be from there? Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:19:12 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment8783 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment3553 Great tutorial, This is a great educational tool for learning about the basics of RSS feeds. It is very informative, detailed, and easy to understand. Thank you. Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:13:54 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment3553 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment3477 Great tutorial, I had absolutely no idea about RSS feeds and know I understand a lot more about them and will soon try it out. Big fan of your tutorials and keep up the great work. Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:24:47 -0600 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment3477 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment737 A podcast is an audio file (or a series of them, like a radio show) that people can download freely. Podcasting utilizes RSS feeds, however, as a way to make sure that people can stay updated with new episodes. There is a specification for and iTunes RSS feed, which has proprietary tags but is also recognized by many other websites and podcasting tools. You can see the iTunes RSS feed specification here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html As for what tools to use to access RSS feeds, it depends on what you want. IE7 has RSS reader capabilities, as other browsers have had for a while. If you want to use Firefox to access a feed, you could do that. Otherwise, there are a ton of other RSS reader and news aggregator applications available. Not to mention that you can use Yahoo!, Google, MSN, and other web based services to subscribe to RSS feeds and track web content. As for your iTunes links, you should get a link from Apple when your podcast has been... Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:02:31 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment737 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment735 Great tutorial! Thank you! Question(s): What's the difference between a podcast and an RSS feed? I've noticed in IE7 that I can't select anything other then IE7 to view an RSS feed, is there a work around so I can keep Microsoft from dictating to my users what software they'll use? Also, in Firefox, the RSS feeds I create will open the iTunes app, but don't download unless I go tools/subscribe to podcast and paste the link in... Any help would be AMAZINGLY appreciated! Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:46:04 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment735 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment376 Alternately, should you have an interest to submit feeds in the newer, Atom 1.0 format, there is a fully detailed howto at this URL. http://starling.us/atom In addition to simple markup, this tutorial will be kept up-to-date on such things as browser quirks, presentation using XSLT stylesheets and sorting via Perl/CGI. Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:47:46 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment376 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment172 After a bit of "validation" on feedvalidator.org I finally got it to work. Apparently the date was not formatted correctly. Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:18:56 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment172 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment182 Re: the date you are correct. It appears that I put an extra space in there somewhere. This date format is strict, and I think its important to refer to feedvalidator.org to ensure that you put the date in the right format. Atom feeds, for example, require a different strict format. Aside from character encoding, this is the other tricky part to creating RSS feeds. Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:20:31 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment182 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment173 Great tutorial; thorough, detailed, and informative. The explanation on each line item helps to understand the overall intent. Keep em coming! Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:48:56 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment173 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment171 I just viewed the tutorial and it seems easy enough, I'm excited to try it out. Thanks for the detailed instructions. Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:57:57 -0700 http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/393/Video-Tutorial-Creating-an-RSS-Feed/#comment171