Online Tutoring – an Educational Revolution “

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“Online Tutoring – An Educational Revolution “

 

 

The present scenario of educational system requires a transformation process to assure and promote educational services at your doorsteps with a world of possibilities and to create a global, learning collaborative platform dedicated to the advancement of education.

 

Online tutoring is a highly flexible, convenient method of learning and allows you to work at any place, with an Internet connection and at your own pace in a real time technology aided with VOIP, interactive voice, text chat and a two-way white board together with file sharing, image uploading and remote access 24/7 to a growing collection of web resources. The online learning process is going to bring out an educational revolution in the near future. So, why restrict our child to traditional classroom teaching ; instead make them learn all multimedia tools and give them an alternative means for gaining knowledge. This collaborative learning process open up new avenues for students to think, ask, discuss and learn in a better way and excel as an all rounder. The potential benefits of these online educational services are burgeoning to make every child – a global student and assure learning process to be easier, fun and result oriented.

 

Online tutoring sites provide a pool of qualified personal tutors who are trained, vetted and screened to be the best among masses. This is a feasible option for learners who can study according to their daily commitments, focus on testing and feedback and simultaneously preparing for the competitive exams. It also promises to cater to the problems faced by students to pursue higher studies and make learning quite effective and interesting. Certainly one should appreciate the benefits of E-learning , as it could add value with various inter activities, case studies or facilitating online discussions for students of present age.

 



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Web Design and Advertising

Written by admin on July 17, 2009 – 7:55 am -



In the first part of our interview with Deirdre Zahl, Sparxoo’s Senior Designer, we outlined the basics of web design. We discussed the functionality of a web site, while touching upon the importance of aesthetic appeal. We also discussed the role of web designers in meeting the digital needs of customers and businesses.

In this second part of the interview, we will do a deep dive on splash pages, the future of advertising and the next frontier of design.



Several years ago, there was a lot of buzz about splash pages. What happened?


There was a magical element about the internet and splash pages. When the internet was in its infancy, there was a lot of mystery and expanding of boundaries. In many ways, splash pages encapsulated that magic. In today’s digital world, that magic is nearly gone as internet users want information faster and faster.

While it used to be “blow people away” with your amazing website, now it’s more “offer them a reason to return” with news on your company, personalized features, and areas they can really interact with. When each second is valued, splash pages are a huge barrier that can impede browsing. More and more, people are looking for information when they browse. In a age where information is everywhere, splash pages can deter return usage.

Advertising works a lot like splash pages. It’s about distracting users from their browsing. So how do you incorporate advertising in design?

Advertising is very much a double-edged sword. It is functional (webmasters need revenue), yet many users find excessive advertising obtrusive and annoying. There is also a lot less space and time to advertise. As information is one of the key drivers of internet browsing, it’s increasingly difficult for advertisers to wedge themselves into the page space.

What are the alternatives?

It’s about not being obtrusive. No one likes to be bombarded with advertising. So it’s helpful to be more subtle, such as cross-promotions with other brands or interacting with audiences. Lucky magazine had a very successful campaign called “Bag-a-day Giveaway” where they gave away a luxury handbag each day for a month. Every day you’d get an email and have to go play an interactive game for your chance to win the bag. If you “shared” the game with your friends you got another chance to play that day. It was very clever, and excellent exposure for both the brands involved and the magazine, plus it created a very valuable email database.

What is the new frontier for web designers?

Mobile will definitely play a large role. More and more people are relying on their mobile devices to find information. Smart phones are more popular than ever and with every generation of phone, graphics are getting better. There is an increasing need to optimize the mobile browser . There is even less space on mobile devices, necessitating an even greater need for tailored design layouts. In that same vein, there is also a need for mobile app design. Consider the eBay application. The site is so…

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Is Writing For The Web All That Different Than Writing In General?

Written by admin on July 14, 2009 – 3:10 am -



Is there a specific manner of writing for the web? Actually, yes, there is. Clear formatting, concise wording and efficient delivery. This is the gist of the protocol for this area of publishing.

Not strange, most would say. Hasn’t the Web evolved so as to be part of every person’s world now? You can access the Web from your TV, your computer, your phone, your digital gadgets. Whatever is on these pages can be logged into anytime, from virtually anywhere, with whatever you are looking for a few clicks away.

But web readers are not like novel readers. Therefore, someone writing for the web cannot write like someone that is writing a novel.

Here are a few things to consider when writing for the web:

- Layout considerations

- Reading manner

- Attention span

- Relevance of information

All the above affect the way writing for the web differs from writing for print.

- Layout considerations

When words are laid out on paper, the eye tends to automatically take in margins and such bearings to make sense of the layout. This doesn’t happen on screen. Words tend to jumble and merge into a big mass of characters that is hard to decipher.

How to address this then? Writing for the web requires using more white space and placing the information in such a way that it is easy for the eyesight to grasp.

A few ways to do this are:

- breaking long paragraphs into smaller blocks.

- inserting a blank line between paragraphs.

- keeping paragraphs short and concise.

- use visual cues such as bulleted lists and tables and graphs, which provide information in one glance.

- use easy-to-read fonts such as Georgia and Verdana, in a legible size, so the eye can grasp it and focus easily.

- Reading manner

It is a fact that people don’t read words on screen as they do on paper. Here are a few considerations where reading ease is concerned:

- The top of the page is vital space. A web page usually displays the top third of the page when it loads. The user needs to scroll to read the lower thirds. Therefore, when writing for the web, making use of this top space to catch readers’ attention is essential.

The above distinction brings us to an essential aspect of writing for the web – the format. Web writing follows the inverted pyramid format.

Traditional writing makes use of an introduction, a body of information, and finally leads to a conclusion. The reader needs to read the whole thing to get to the conclusion. Basically, this conclusion is what he wants to get to. The format of such a piece then starts with an introduction at the top, very much like the tip of a pyramid, leading down to the conclusion, the foot or the base of the pyramid.

Writing for the web makes use of an inverted pyramid format. Flip the pyramid, with the base at the top and the tip at the bottom. Thus, it starts with the conclusion.

When writing for the web, the first paragraph of any article writing piece for the Web should start with the conclusion of the matter being dealt with. A reader, by reading the first paragraph alone, should already know what the full piece will tell him in more detail.

- Remember, readers skim a page on screen. They won’t read everything word by word. They’ll scan the page for a general idea of what is being said. Therefore writing for the web means using keywords and displays such as bold or color help to present a better picture for the ’scanner’.

Hyperlinks fall in this category, but beware using too many stylistic devices and too many links, as they detract from the content.

- Attention span & Relevance of information

The attention span of the on-screen reader is very fickle. It is thus better to have short, concise pieces that deliver the information quickly and efficiently.

Information should pertain to the topic being dealt with. Use of examples and anecdotes should be kept to a minimum. Writing for the web should be active, as in they should provide the reader what he is looking for and not digress into unnecessary detours.

On the whole, writing for the Web is not all that different. It is mostly the delivery that has to be adjusted to fit this medium.



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Google to Introduce Its Own Web Browser

Written by admin on July 13, 2009 – 1:01 pm -



 

Google Inc is set to introduce on Tuesday a new Web browser designed to more other complex Web programs or quickly handle video-rich, affectation challenge to browsers designed originally to handle graphics and text.

Google officials confirmed news of long-rumored plans to offer Blogoscoped.com its entitled Google Chrome, own Web browsing software in a company blog post after it incorrectly mailed details of the plan to a Google-watching blog.

They said the new web browser introducing a public trail for the Microsoft windows users. If you want to see more details about the browser visit tinyurl.com

The Internet search leader is also working on versions for Apple Macintosh users and for Linux devices, it said.

The launch of Chrome coincides with the recent introduction by arch-rival Microsoft of its Internet Explorer 8 last month. Internet Explorer holds roughly three-quarters of the browser market, followed by Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple Inc’s Safari browsers.

Google said its engineers have borrowed from a variety of other open-source projects, including Apple’s WebKit and the Mozilla Firefox open-source browser. As a result, Google plans to make all of Chrome software code open to other developers to enhance and expand, the company said.

“We realized that the Web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser,” Google Vice President of Product Management Sindar Pichai and Engineering Director Linus Upson said in a jointly authored blog post.

BUILT FOR SPEED

They said Google Chrome promises to load pages faster and more securely, but it also includes a new engine for loading interactive JavaScript code, dubbed V8, that is designed to run the next generation of not-yet-invented Web applications.

“What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build,” Pichai and Upson wrote.

A Google spokesman declined to comment beyond the blog post.

Microsoft said the recently upgraded version 8 of Internet Explorer offered many new privacy and user control features.

“The browser landscape is highly competitive,” Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, said in a statement.

“People will choose Internet Explorer 8 for the way it puts the services they want right at their fingertips, respects their personal choices about how they want to browse and, more than any other browsing technology, (it) puts them in control of their personal data online,” Hachamovitch said.

John Lilly, chief executive of Mozilla Corp, the organization behind the Firefox browser, said Google, which has been his non-profit organization’s biggest financial backer for several years, had recently renewed its support through 2011.

Mozilla recently introduced its own upgraded browser, Firefox 3, and has collaborated with Google on a variety of technical issues, including a system for reporting software crashes and to make software browsers more secure.

He said in a blog post that Mozilla and Google would continue to collaborate where it made sense for both organizations, but that Mozilla would also focus on its main mission of keeping the Web open and participatory by fostering its own commmunity-developed browser and other projects.

“With IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc — there’s been competition for a while now, and this increases that,” Lilly wrote in commenting on news of Google Chrome.

GOING ‘INCOGNITO’

Google confirmed that it had prematurely mailed a copy of a promotional comic book detailing plans for Chrome to a blogger. Blogoscope’s writer, Philipp Lenssen, scanned and published the 38-page comic here

Chrome organizes information into tabbed pages. Web programs can be launched in their own dedicated windows. It also offers a variety of features to make the browser more stable and secure, according to the comic book guide.

Among Chrome’s features is a special privacy mode that lets users create an “incognito” window where “nothing that occurs in that window is ever logged on your computer.” This is a read-only feature with access to one’s bookmarks of favorite sites.



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Think of the Impossible with Web Development Technology

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With sky scraping competition in the online business and the lightning fast development in the technology, Web development in India have witnessed sea change over the years. Technically speaking, if you wish to perform any function in a website that goes beyond a simple static site in HTML is a web application, then you need the services of web development (India) company to develop it. Making the most of the latest technology, professionals are doing that was believed to be improbable in the past.

Having flourished in recent years, PHP web development in India is considered as the most promising option for design and development of a website. PHP being a server side scripting language have opened several avenues for the web developers. Not only has this language given an excellent platform for creating interactive websites but being in inline with the new search engine algorithms, PHP based sites are easily indexed by the search engines. Thus, prompting web developers to discover new prospects in the field of PHP web development in India.

Flash is another popular technology that gratifies the requirements of website developers in terms of both design and programming aspects. With sensible combination of flash designing and programming features, flash developer India can try out numerous possibilities and create interactive and aesthetically interesting websites. Together with Flash design and programming, one can create amazing Flash animated logos, Flash shopping carts, Flash audio & video players, presentations and many more. With flash design (India) services, you can create:

Fully animated navigation and fascinating visual effects& eye-catching graphics Quick-loading sound and animation that loads quickly Online presentation with dazzling effects Interesting and rich-user interfaces Rich-media online advertising Cool flash animation E-commerce enabled flash sites Entertaining and educating flash movies

With flash design (India) technology, it has been possible to develop highly compelling, attractive and low bandwidth websites. Being extremely attractive and captivating for the user, flash based websites are more successful in retaining the site visitors and endowing them with a richer and more exciting web experience. The use of flash is not only limited to animation or designing, but flash developers in India are capable of exploiting the Action Scripting, the specific programming language of flash, to develop completely database backed web solutions.

There are several veteran web development (India) companies that can provide you with the most comprehensive and custom made web solutions to suit your discerning requirements. Save your website from an untimely online demise by taking guidance of an experienced web development (India) professional!



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Making an RSS Feed

Written by admin on July 2, 2009 – 12:42 am -



What Is RSS?

How does RSS syndication work? Say you publish a new web page about a particular topic. You want others interested in that topic to know about it. By listing the page as an “item” in your RSS file, you can have the page appear in front of those who read information using RSS readers or “news aggregators” (explained more in my sidebar article, RSS: Your Gateway To News & Blog Content). RSS also allows people to easily add links to your content within their own web pages. Bloggers are a huge core audience that especially does this.

What does RSS stand for? There’s a can of worms. RSS as introduced by Netscape in 1999 then later abandoned in 2001 stood for “Rich Site Summary.” Another version of RSS pioneered by UserLand Software stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” In yet another version, RSS stands for “RDF Site Summary.”

History buffs might be interested that there’s been some rivalry over who invented RSS. This is why we have both different names and indeed different “flavors” or versions of RSS. Mark Pilgrim’s written an excellent article, What Is RSS, that charts the different versions with recommendations on which to use. I’ll also revisit the version choice you’ll need to make. But first, let’s look more closely at some basics of what goes into any RSS file.

How Easy Is RSS?

I’ve been exploring RSS because it was time that Search Engine Watch offered its own stories in this manner. I’ve read several tutorials about making a feed, and they generally suggest that it is easy. They often offer code that you can “cut-and-paste” and link over to specifications that I actually don’t find that clear.

For example, the RSS 2.0 specification has an “cloud” element that’s optional but which a lay person might still wonder if they should use it. Meanwhile, heaven help the person who stumbles into the RSS 1.0 specification and its complicated RDF syntax.

Sure, making an RSS file IS easy for many. If you understand HTML, you’ll probably understand enough to do a cut-and-paste from someone else’s RSS file to make your own file. Don’t know HTML? Start a blog, because several blogging tools automatically generates RSS files.

As for those non-technical people using WYSIWYG page building tools or personal home page building systems, have faith. Even you can build an RSS file from scratch, as long as you dispense with some of the extra features you probably don’t need. We’ll go through how to do this below. Later, I’ll also mention some tools that will even do some or all of the work for you.

The RSS File

At the heart of an RSS file are “items.” No matter what version of RSS you settle on, your file will have to include at least one item. Items are generally web pages that you’d like others to link to. For example, let’s say you just created a web page reviewing a new cell phone that’s being released. Information about that page would form an item.

To enter your item into the RSS file, you’ll need three bits of information:

* Title

* Description

* Link

The title and description of your item need not match exactly the HTML title tag of the web page that the item refers to, nor the meta description tag, assuming you use these (don’t know what they are? See my How To Use HTML Tags article). You can write any title and description that you think will describe the page. However, using your page’s title and meta description tag certainly makes it easy to copy and paste to build your RSS feed.

In the case of our example page, let’s say this is the information we settle on to define it as an item:

Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos

I’ve been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities right!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html

Now we have to surround that information with XML tags. These are similar to HTML tags, with the exception that unlike with HTML, there’s no set definition of XML tags. Anyone can make up a particular XML tag. Whether it is useful depends on the program that reads the resulting XML file. In the case of RSS feeds, they have their own unique set of XML tags that are defined. Use these correctly, and then anything that reads RSS will understand your information.

Did that make your head spin? If so, don’t reread — just carry on to see how simple it is. First, open a text editor like Notepad. We’re going to build our RSS file using it.

For your title, you need to start it with the tag, then follow this with the text of the title, then end with the tag. It looks like this:

Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos

For your description, you do the same, starting out with the opening tag, then following with the actual description, then “closing” with the tag. Now you have this:

Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos

I’ve been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities right!

Next, we add the link information, beginning with , following with the actual hyperlink, then closing with . That gives us this:

Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos

I’ve been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities right!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html

Now there’s one more thing we need to do. We actually have to define all this information as forming a particular “item,” which we do using a special item tag.

You place the opening item tag, at the top or start of all the information we’ve listed. You then place the closing item tag, , at the bottom or “end” of the item information. The finished product looks like this:

Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos

I’ve been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities right!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html

Congratulations! You’ve now made your first item. There’s a bit more to do to finish our RSS file. First, what if we have other items we want to syndicate? Then we simply add more item elements, just as we did above. You can have up to 15 items. New items tend to be inserted at the top, with old items removed from the bottom, to make room for new stuff.

With our example, let’s see how things look if we add two more items:

Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos

I’ve been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities right!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html

Sanyo Tablet PC Amazes!

I was dubious about the new Tablet PCs, but then I saw the latest from Sanyo. Wow, cool looks and it works!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/sanyotablet.html

Canon MegaTiny Digital Camera Too Small

OK, there is a limit to just how small is too small. Canon’s MetaTiny, no larger than a quarter, simply is too little to use properly

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/metatiny.html

Having defined items we want to distribute, we now have to define our site as a “channel.” You’ll use the same tags as with the items: title, description and link. However, this time the information will be about your entire site, rather than a particular page. That means our channel information would look like this:

All Gadgets Reviewed

If it’s a gadget, we review it. Learn what gadgets are hot and what’s not!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com

Now, how does something reading our RSS file know that the information above is for our “channel” when it looks just like item information? Simple. As long as we don’t surround this information with an opening and closing tags, it won’t be seen as item information but rather as channel information. That gives us this:

All Gadgets Reviewed

If it’s a gadget, we review it. Learn what gadgets are hot and what’s not!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com

Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos

I’ve been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities right!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html

Sanyo Tablet PC Amazes!

I was dubious about the new Tablet PCs, but then I saw the latest from Sanyo. Wow, cool looks and it works!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/sanyotablet.html

Canon MegaTiny Digital Camera Too Small

OK, there is a limit to just how small is too small. Canon’s MetaTiny, no larger than a quarter, simply is too little to use properly

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/metatiny.html

There are a few last things we need to do. First, we need to add a tag at the very top of the file saying that this is written according to the XML 1.0 specifications. Right under this, we also have to say what RSS version we are using.

So far, everything we’ve done is compatible with UserLand’s popular RSS 0.91 version. However, it also matches UserLand’s latest RSS 2.0 version, as well, so we’ll define the file as meeting that specification. This will allow us to add other neat features in the future, if we want.

Finally, after the RSS tag, we need to add an opening “channel” tag. That gives us this at the top of the file:

At the bottom of the file, after all the items we want to syndicate, we have to insert a closing channel and RSS tag, in that order. Those look like this:

This means our complete file looks like this:

All Gadgets Reviewed

If it’s a gadget, we review it. Learn what gadgets are hot and what’s not!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com

Nokia 3650 Combines Phone And Photos

I’ve been playing with the new Nokia 3650. Finally, someone has got the combination of a cell phone with digital camera capabilities right!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/nokia3650.html

Sanyo Tablet PC Amazes!

I was dubious about the new Tablet PCs, but then I saw the latest from Sanyo. Wow, cool looks and it works!

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/sanyotablet.html

Canon MegaTiny Digital Camera Too Small

OK, there is a limit to just how small is too small. Canon’s MetaTiny, no larger than a quarter, simply is too little to use properly

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/metatiny.html

Mind Blowing Options

Everything shown above is the bare basics you need to create a file and start syndicating content from your web site. However, there are additional things you could do.

For example, rather than your entire web site being a “channel,” you could actually have different content from within the web site be defined into separate channels. That’s something I’m not going to explore in this article, but some of the resources below will guide you through this, when you feel more comfortable.

As hinted at, RSS 2.0 allows you to insert all types of additional information into your feed. It can make your head spin to look at these and decide what to use. The easy answer is, don’t bother with anything you don’t know. Not every aggregator supports all the options offered. As long as you provide the minimum information suggested above, you should be fine.

Did I Choose The Right RSS Version?

Earlier, I’d mentioned there are different versions of RSS. Even though we entered the bare minimum of information, it turned out that we were able to have a file that was easily considered to be RSS 2.0, the latest version promoted by UserLand and which is widely used.

Indeed, the Syndic8 site reports that the most popular format of RSS by far is RSS 0.91 — and though we’ve used RSS 2.0, our file as shown is entirely compatible with RSS 0.91. In short, we’re in safe company.

What about that RSS 1.0 version that I said was complicated. Well, it is complicated. However, some people might want to make use of some of the special capabilities that it offers. If you are interested in it, then check out the official specification.

Saving The File

Now that we’re done adding to the file, we need to save it. But what name shall we give it? I’ve looked and not seen any guidance on this. I imagine that’s because as long as the file is valid (more below), it probably doesn’t matter what it’s called.

To make my own decision for Search Engine Watch, I decided to imitate what I saw out at UserLand, which promotes the RSS 2.0 standard that we used. UserLand’s example feeds all ended .xml, so let’s do the same. As for the first part, that really can be whatever you like. For our example, let’s say we just call it feed.xml.

Now that our file is saved, we can place it anywhere we want on our web server. Let’s say we put it in the root or home directory. Then the address to our RSS file would be:

http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/feed.xml

Validating The File

Now our RSS file is done, but did we do it right? To find out, we need to validate it. Use the aptly named Feed Validator service. Simply enter the address to your RSS file, and you’ll be told if everything is OK — or if there’s something wrong you need to fix.

How about a quick preview of how your new feed actually looks? Then pay a visit to Wytheville Community College News Center. Again, enter your feed URL, and you’ll see the clickable headlines and story descriptions nicely assembled inside a box.

The service will also generate a JavaScript code that you can post on your site. Anyone copying the JavaScript can automatically have your feed syndicated into their pages — pretty neat!

Get Syndicated!

Now that your file is validated, you want the world to know about it! To make this happen, visit the RSS directories and search engines listed in the RSS: Your Gateway To News & Blog Content article. They generally offer submission pages, where you can inform them of your feed.

You also want to make sure people who come to your web site see that you provide a feed. It’s very common to post a link to the feed somewhere on the home page of a web site. If you have a dedicated news page, you may want to put it there, as well.

You can link to your feed with an ordinary HTML link. However, many sites use a small orange XML icon to link to the feed. I’ve also seen some sites use blue RSS icon. I could find no standard about using these. So, to be safe, I did all three with Search Engine Watch. Look on the home page, and you’ll see how it’s done (and help yourself to the icons, if you need them).

Finally, it’s good to “ping” one of the major services that track when web logs and RSS content changes. By doing this, you ensure that other sites that monitor these know to check back at your site for more content.

Weblogs.com is one of these major sites. Enter your site’s name and the URL of your feed into the manual Ping-Site Form, and it will know you’ve updated your feed. The Specs page explains how to set up automatic notification.

blo.gs is another major change monitoring site. It is supposed to receive any changes that come from Weblogs.com, so you shouldn’t need to notify it separately. However, if you want to be on the safe side, it’s easily done. Use the ping form, which also explains how to set up automatic pinging, as well.

Tutorials & Resources

RSS Headline Creator allows you to skip coding and manually choose the number of headlines you’d like to include in your file, up to the 15 maximum allowed. Then a form with boxes that you fill out will be made. Enter the right information, then push the “Make The Code” button. Your RSS file’s code will be generated, for you to copy and paste into a text editor and save.

How To Get Your Web Site Content Syndicated is a Dec. 2002 tutorial by Kalena Jordan and Dan Thies from which I drew inspiration to get my own feed going.

Syndic8’s How To Section lists a variety of tutorials that discuss how to build RSS files.

Content Syndication with RSS is a book by Ben Hammersley that was just released in March 2003. I haven’t read it, but everything I’ve heard is that it should be excellent.

RSS Resources Directory from UserLand categorizes helpful information related to RSS, in different categories.

Postscript: Search Types: Blogs & Feeds and SEO: Feeds are sections of the Search Topics area available to Search Engine Watch members with lots of information on the topic of feeds since this article was originally written.

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