Clearance Level: YellowSyndication Feed Resources

A good, mid-level explaination of syndication feeds.

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For those of us who are slightly mystified by creating an RSS feed (or even modifying our software’s syndication-feed templates), here’s a good resource that walks through the basics. It breaks down the different parts of the feed, tells a little bit more about what one can and cannot do in these areas, and how to set things up so that you can use raw HTML to nicely format your entries (the CDATA command, which I gather is not universally loved).

If you know HTML, and use a program like ExpressionEngine, WordPress, Joomla, or something else that provides you with an RSS template, you can use this to learn how to manipulate and format that template - particularly its output. If you are a bit on the geeky side and haven’t created your own syndication feed yet, this will give you a good overview and some pointers on building a feed. If you’re coming fresh off of Blogger or another free provider, and/or aren’t comfortable with HTML…this may confuse or overwhelm you. Bookmark it so that you can come back to it later on, if you ever reach the point of formatting your own syndication feeds.

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