Rss 101 Tutorial Part 5

Let's manually create a basic RSS feed. Assume that we want to create a feed about documentation standards and guidelines related to the IT industry. Within this feed, we can embed a number topics such as:

- Writing style

- Concern of correct grammar, punctuation, and spellings

- Sentence assemblage

- Guidelines for writing technical documents, white papers, installations sheets, customer service reference manuals, and user guides

- Sample templates

- Tips for conforming to international standards

- Importance of avoiding or embracing colloquialism

- Rules for reviewing and editing

- Charges for writing beginners, knowing, and experts

Each topic identified before forms an item for the RSS feed. Our first item can be written as follows

Item Title Writing Style

Item Characterization

The purpose of a document and its audience define its writing style. A formal production such as a white paper or a management report must have the formal tone. In contrast, a user guide essentials to be written in a more friendly tone. Learn more about writing style and compose result-oriented documents.

Detailed Article URL www ITdocumentation dot com / WritingStyle.html

Author Writing Guru

Email WritingGuru at ITdocumentation dot com

Publishing Date Mon, 27 June 2005, 0900 EST

Gather similar news for all items to be included in the feed. This data forms item info part of the RSS feed.

As for the channel data, define a feed title, Description, and its URL. In our case these attributes can be:

Feed Title Guidelines for IT Documentation

Feed Definition Brilliant library of writing tips and guidelines for documentation specialists of all experience levels working in the IT field!

Feed URL www dot ITdocumentation dot com

Using the Basic RSS Feed Format

The next course after collecting the feed information is to put in a upright format, which the Internet browsers and RSS aggregators can understand and interpret to show it correctly on your PC. The format for this file is as follows:

Insert feed title

Insert feed URL

Insert feed Construction

en-us

Insert date and time

Insert title of the first item

Insert URL of the detailed article for the first item

Insert Statement of the first item

Insert author's email address (Author's name)

Insert item publishing date

Insert title of the second item

Insert URL of the detailed article for the second item

Insert Construction of the second item

Insert author's email address (Author's name)

Insert item spreading date

:

:

Notice that there is only one instance of the channel tag, whereas thousand occurrences of the item tag. The number of item tags should be the same as the number of elements you want to contain in your RSS feed.

The tags in red differentiate the extra news you can involve in an RSS feed. This data is not standard, but gives the article more credibility and offers the readers an option of communicating with the author.

Let's now look at inserting item info in the hereinbefore format. The first item in our reference when inserted in the furthermore format will look as follows:

Guidelines for IT Documentation

http : // www dot domain dot com

Brilliant inventory of writing tips and guidelines for documentation specialists

of all experience levels working in the IT field!

en-us

Mon, 27 June 2005, 0930 EST

Writing Style

http : // www dot domain dot com / WritingStyle.html

The purpose of a document and its audience define its writing style. A formal presentation such as a white paper or a management report must have the formal tone. In alternative, a

user guide needinesss to be written in a more friendly tone. Learn more about writing style and create result-oriented documents.

WritingGuru at ITdocumentation dot com (Writing Guru)

Mon, 27 June 2005, 0900 EST

:

:

Use the before format to add news for other elements and your feed is performed!

Assign the feed a name and save it. Considerable RSS resources say that all RSS feeds have the extension .rss or .xml. In reality, however, an RSS feed can have any extension or no file extension. Numerous RSS feed generating software written in hypertext preprocessor (PHP) use the .php extension for the feeds they construct. It is also for the sake of keeping things simple and filenames indicating their content that population might put together .rss or .xml extensions to RSS feeds.

You can add as lots content as you want though try not to exceed beyond 10 part per feed for usability reasons.

In an RSS feed, content are typically arranged in the reverse chronological order with the existent item being the first one and the oldest item at the end, just like news headlines.

As well if you are new to Internet, you can most likely generate an RSS feed as long as you follow this basic feed format and you have complexion content to publish.

Validating the Feed

Use Feed Validator for an automated code validation of the feed. To do this, upload your RSS file of your web site. In the example before, the file will be uploaded on http : // www dot ITdocumentation dot com / rss / writingstyle.xml.

Next, go to http : // www dot feedvalidator dot organization. This site shows a text box where you need to enter the place of your RSS file, which in our case is http : // www dot ITdocumentation dot

com / rss / writingstyle.xml.

Click the Validate button for code validation to begin and wait for some time to view message informing you about contingency or absence of any errors in the file. If the validator reports any errors, fix them, and recheck the code until all errors are fixed.

Adding Digital Media

Adding digital media containing images, audio, and video can transport your audience to a unequal realm. With this capability, your messages become after all more personalized and attach that human touch to the process.

Besides actually embracing an audio file, you can embed a upright link in your RSS feed directing the users towards a file which when selected allows the surfers to download it. The subscribers can refer to it repeatedly and when ever they want to.

Moreover, RSS 2.0 supports a new feature named enclosure to enable feed creators enclose digital media content. When an appropriate enclosure reading software comes across such a feed item, it reads the accompanying link and content type to automatically download it and store it on a media device.

Using Software to Construct an RSS Feed

Software offers a certain number advantages over manual:

- No requirement of any technical knowledge including that of XML or HTML.

- Spell check to eliminate spelling mistakes from feeds.

- No demand to validate your feed.

- Eases the process of updating a feed.

- The option of adding your marketing logo thereby giving an identity to the feed.

The next part will be about: "Tips for Creating High-powered RSS Feeds"

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