Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Adding an RSS or XML feed to your blog

Read What is RSS and then choose an RSS aggregator (or news reader) to view your RSS and XML feeds in.

How to add an RSS feed to your blogger blog.
I am going to add an RSS feed to the createablogblog blog (is that too many blogs?).
Here is how to do it.
From your blogger dashboard click the little blue cog (settings link).
Next click the Site Feed tab.
Select Yes to Publish Site Feed and Full to Descriptions.
Now take note of the URL (link) for the feed.
Click Save Settings.
Later we will look at adding this to your blog page so readers can subscribe.

My RSS feed is in the ATOM format which is what blogger uses.
http://createablogblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml
You can look at this if you want but it is designed to be read by a news reader. I use Sauce Reader but there are many others. Some integrate with outlook, some are stand alone and some integrate into a browser. For example Mozilla Firefox has Sage as an integrated extension.


Posted by: Jethro | 10:11 AM |