RSS?

[Piercey]

What exactly does this do? I see it on everyone's site so now I'm curious...

-Mike

[pixelpunk]

RSS is the next big thing

I have an RSS-reader, which is a software on my computer that polls all the RSS-feeds that I include in it. My software alerts me when a feed is updated (in this context when a photoblogger has posted a new image) and I can click to get to the image directly, and often I also get a preview in the feed.

It's truly an awesome way to keep yourself up to date with a large number of websites, and every siteowner should provide an RSS-feed to their content. If they're not providing a feed - they are missing out on a lot of visitors because many people will just ignore the site because it's to time-consuming not having it in your rss-reader.

Here's an post on the blog.photoblogs.org page for reading (read the comments):
http://blog.photoblogs.org/2004/11/newsfeeds_worth.html

It all comes down to this: provide a feed or many people will not visit (bookmark) you.

// punk

[pixelpunk]

Just a note: pixelpost provides an RSS 2.0 feed, as well as an Atom-feed.
I have not told anyone there's an atom feed in there because I frankly have no idea if it's solid or not working etc.

View it at the pixelpost url index.php?x=atom
(rss 2.0 at index.php?x=rss)

// punk

[Piercey]

I'm having problems getting firefox to understand the feed. Is there there something I have to do to the index.php file?

my site is www.mpierce.com/Lglass

[pixelpunk]

Can Firefox read rss-files?

And what part is it that Firefox don't understand?

// punk

[Piercey]

Yeah Firefox can understand RSS fees. A little icon shows up on the bottom right corner of the browser when a site has RSS. Most of the photoblogs I went to last night work just fine. Mine doesn't for some reason. And I really don't know what part its having a problem with...

Any help would be awesome.

[Anonymous]

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="george's webspace" href="index.php?x=rss" />

This is the code I have to enable firefox live bookmarks. Adapt to suit your own site

[Anonymous]

BTW pixelpost throws all of your pictures into the RSS feed. I hacked up index.php to include only the last four entries using a simple counter.

[pixelpunk]

Yeah I know pixelpost throws all in there, let's put that down as a mistake

You could just limit the sql query (append and add "limit 0,10" for example) instead of doing a counterthing, result will probably be the same but more efficient.

Find out where the rss is output and look for a liine that says something with "header("Content-type: xml/rss") or similar. I can't check it right now.
Remove it all together or change it to
header("Content-type: text/plain");
and the issue is probably resolved.

// punk

[Piercey]

Originally Posted by george

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="george's webspace" href="index.php?x=rss" />

This is the code I have to enable firefox live bookmarks. Adapt to suit your own site

where might I put this bit of code?