Freebies user guide Be the first to know with RSS

 

"RSSessentials"

 

 

Imagine a gallery director who keeps you personally updated
    immediately any stock changes that you might be interested in: well that's the beauty of RSS. RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, adds a fantastic time saving convenience to the Web by providing automatic notification of updates to a favourite Website. An RSS feed (or Web feed) is typically a summary of new content that has been added and works in much the same way as a news headline does by alerting you to content you may be interested in. What are the benefits? RSS has the following advantages:

     

    •You can be notified of new content on one or multiple sites

    all without having to actively check for it.

     

    •The information presented in an RSS reader is typically much simpler

    than most websites. No navigating, faster, and less mental effort.

     

    •Choose to have media files automatically downloaded.

     

    •It's like getting email each time one of your RSS list updates their content, except no

    email address is required. So for sites you may not trust, you are less exposed to spam, viruses, phishing, and identity theft.

     

    •If you'd like to stop receiving news, simply remove the feed from your feed reader.

     

     

 

How to use RSS

 

    First you need a feed reader which is a small e-mail type program. We recommend the newly developed Google Reader, or the integrated reader in the new Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers. Or you can look for the feed reader that best suits your needs at RSS Compendium.

 

 

 

 

How to add feeds to your feed reader

 

    Look for the RSS button, which will be something like this

         RSS icon

    click it and copy and paste the link in to your feed reader.