xmlman - 9:33 am on Aug 28, 2007 (gmt 0)

Yes, all sites can be RSS based and it is very simple.

First, to convert your site to RSS based, you must be a programmer who have some experience with Content Management software,

Most sites are still hand made in HTML (the schoolboy way) or some claim to be database driven when it is just made of scripts/codes parsing data from databases.

Content Management software has been around for sometimes now and many web sites are not even taking advantage of it. With a Content Management software a site owner simply log in to an admin area to add the site contents and manage the site.

Take note: I said "add content". Most site contents do come from internal sources or external sources.

RSS takes the Content Management to a higher level. RSS data can originate internally or externally. So, when a Site is RSS based, and it also incorporated with content management tool, it derives data internally and externally via RSS Feed.

How it works:

- The internal feed are written by a feed writer (in xml, .rss, .atom formats).
- The external feed are sourced from external feed sources/feed channel. (in xml, .rss, .atom formats). With an add feed feature.
- The above RSS application is incorporated into a Content management software and that is all.

With the above powerful tool, a site will have content management system, with built in RSS Writer, RSS reader and the end product is a site that looks and fell like an RSS aggregator.

In this way, RSS feed generated internally can be offered to the public on FREE subscriptions and the externally sourced feed can always be added and deleted and also available for the public to read.

Although, this RSS technology is currently and mostly used by news sites such as Google News, Yahoo News, CNN, Press Illustrated, Fox News, BBC, AP etc.

Sites that will benefit from the RSS technology are not just news sites but Estate, Hospital, Educational, banks, Doctors, Engineers, travel, hotels and many more.

[edited by: bill at 9:56 am (utc) on Aug. 28, 2007]
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