New to this thing

what is rss and what does it do.

[cmatcme]

Hi i'm just browsing at the moment and was just wandering what RSS and what it actually does.

Is it similar to CSS?

[trillianjedi]

[xml.com...]

[cmatcme]

Is this thing server sided? It looks like a language.

Oh wait this is in the browser sided section.

[burnsal]

cmatcme, it is a way of syndicating content. You create an RSS format file and save it to your server like an HTML file but with a .xml extention.

This content is then viewed in RSS readers, there are many available, Bloglines is about the best free reader and it is web based.

[eurotrash]

If you do some browsing around this forum, you will see the abilities and also links to various tutorials.

A lot of questions have been asked about displaying etc and I think most have been answered.

Good luck in your quest!

[christian1]

Here is probably one of the best pages on rss I have come across - [mnot.net...]

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Cheers, Chris
Anam cara

[edited by: werty at 2:06 pm (utc) on April 4, 2005]
[edit reason] Removed Self Promotion - Please see TOS #13 [/edit]

[eurotrash]

And just to give you more reading there is another good tutorial at this thread:

[webmasterworld.com...]