Basics of Blogging Series: Part 23 - RSS - How To Get Your RSS Feed Up On The Web

In this article we will discover just how to get your RSS Feed up on the web, and what is possible and what is not with an RSS feed.

Remember: Most Blogging Software builds RSS straight in and there is absolutely nothing you need to do. This RSS part of the Blogging series is for you to get as sophisticated as you like with your own custom made RSS feed.

1. Naming your RSS file - Your file name does not have to be rss.xml You are welcome to name it to whatever your little heart desires, though the .xml extension is kind of important for your editors to know just what file the software is dealing with.


2. Now that you have the file - what do you do with it? Okay first thing is first. Take the file and place it in your Web directory where everyone can get to it. Lets say we named the file "ballchain.xml" and we move it (ftp) to our web directory under the address of www.janisjoplin.com/rss/ballchain.xml. Now we know and the rest of the world will know where that file is. Don't put it in a secured or password directory UNLESS you are only granting secure, password access to it to specific people.


3. Now before you do anything else, BEFORE you release this great RSS feed to the world you MUST make sure it is valid. Of course you have been careful. Of course you never make typos. Of course you got it down pat. Still go and VALIDATE. How do you do this? Well nothing can be simpler. There are many validating engines out there. One very good one, which will of course drive you crazy over every small mistake, but it is good is at: http://www.feedvalidator.org. When you have an error it will lead you to the pages that explain your error. You should get into the habit of validating your feed EVERY TIME you change the RSS file.


4. 
   Okay NOW we can finally go get our little orange "XML" or "RSS" button. That is easy. If you want to just go to a sight with the button already, and since it is public domain just copy the image with your browser. Move it over to your Web, and put in on your page where you will offer RSS to the world. Then add an HTML href command to the button, so that when a user drags it into their aggregator the correct file will be grabbed. The code will look something like this:
   

   
   <a href="www.janisjoplin.com/rss/ballchain.xml">
   
    <img border="0" src="www.janisjoplin.com/rss/rss.jpg" WIDTH="48" HEIGHT="14">
   
   You also have the option of going to a site where you can create your own button. One such internet site is: http://www.lucazappa.com/brilliantMaker/buttonImage.php  There you can make a standard size RSS button with your own logo on it.
   
   
   
   

   
   


5. Now you have the file and logo and the hyperlink to your RSS feed on your main page. Now you have to go out and Submit your feed address to the RSS Feed Directories. There is also software that will do this for you as well. Instead of listing the many RSS feed directories here, just Google or Yahoo for "RSS Feed Directories" and submit your RSS URL to them. Remember the URL to your feed is NOT your home page. It is rather "www.janisjoplin.com/rss/ballchain.xml".


6. 
   Think you are done? Hah! Now you want the major search engines to know about your feed right?
   
   
   
   • Yahoo - http://publisher.yahoo.com/promote.php is where you begin. In the end you will have your very own Yahoo RSS Feed button for your feed, which Yahoo will give you the code to add to your web page as well.
   
   
   • Google - http://www.google.com/intl/zh-cn/webmasters/addfeed.html and again in the end you will have an RSS Google button to add to your feed.
   
   
   • MSN is a bit tricker. For some reason they keep the information on registering your feed with them a universal secret. http://rss.msn.com/publisher.armx will tell you how to do it.
   
   
   • Once you get more sophisticated you will see the Newsgator button and a bunch of others. Since Newsgator is one of the major players in the market you should check them out at http://www.newsgator.com
   
   
   
   


7. UPDATE Your Feed - Now you created your xml file, uploaded that and the image to the web, submitted your feed, gotten a whole host of RSS feed buttons, from Google, Yahoo, MSN and NewsGator. Now all you have to do is make sure that you update your content on a fairly continuing schedule and that your RSS feed is constantly available.


8. Will you know how many people access your feed? This is a tricky and difficult question with no real solution as of yet. So the answer is no, you will not. Unless you are a real techie and want to spend time in mining your server logs or putting invisible images into your feed (like they do in email to see if it was opened and in RSS that is not foolproof) forget it. You can of course mine your server logs looking for hits on the ballchain.xml file but that is time consuming and an incredible amount of work. DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT PUTTING Javascript IN THERE OR SOME OTHER SCRIPT SO A HIT COUNTER CAN COUNT IT. It will destroy the well formed XML and will not be aggregated or read as it will no longer be an RSS feed document.


9. 
   RSS IN your Web Site - If you go to some sites on the web, not only will they offer you their own orange button but you will see an RSS feed in fed into their web pages. And when you see that you say "Hey I want this in my web site too!" Well you can do that as well. But before I tell you where to go on the net to get it (its for free too) I want to explain two possibilities here. The reason why many sites (including my own) put an RSS feed on their web page, is because it creates and adds content to the web site. After all the whole issue of content is what makes places like www.ezinearticles.com rock! If you are interested in content ONLY for your viewers than you don't have to worry about the following. However, if you are interested in content for search engines as well be aware of the following two possibilities.
   
   
   
   • Many places will offer you a Javascript code to put in your web page. This is great, but be aware that search engines are "blind" to Javascript. What is placed within that code is simply not taken into account. Therefore, all the content being picked up by your link to the New York Times RSS Feed and put on your web site will not be indexed.
   
   
   • Some places offer you PHP code as well. This requires that your web server supports PHP, which if you are not a techie you will have to check. And then you will have to usually make sure that your page is named say home.PHP and not home.html After that you can insert the PHP code into your page (as short as the Javascript code). BUT the GREAT thing is that search engines DO SEE the content that is in that PHP code, and that content will be indexed along with your web site. And search engines LOVE CONTENT.
   
   
   
   For either possibility you can check out one such place. http://www.rssfeedreader.com/ There are others and once again a search will reveal a world of possibilities. Rssfreereader.com does have some really good options though both for Javascript and for PHP.


10. RSS Aggregator - There are zillions of those. If you use FireFox you can find some great RSS aggregators as Browser extensions. If you want a Desktop Aggregator just do a search for them. And then of course there are Windows aggregators that work within your browser (not as extensions). I don't feel right in suggesting one product over another, so I will not give a list here. They are readily available in any search on the web. Some are free, others you pay for. It is your decision.


11. Well we have come to the end of our RSS Mania - Understanding RSS Series. Some things like CSS files and formatting your RSS for HTML are not in the purview of this series and are a lot more technical. However, I hoped you learned about RSS and why this mania is sweeping the web.

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Previous Articles In This Series:

1. The Basics of Blogging and Web Site Creation - Part One: Content Is King


2. The Basics of Blogging and Web Site Creation - Part Two: Introduction To Keywords


3. Part Three - Keywords, Tags, Categories - Oh Vey! I Am So Mixed Up!


4. Blogging & Website Basics - Part Four: So How The Hell Do I Get Bonafide Links To My Blog?


5. Blogging - Part Five: Trying to Understand the Psychology Behind It All


6. Blogging - Part Six: Viral Technology - An Introduction


7. Blogging - Part Seven: Article Submission As A Tool To Extend Your Reach


8. Basics Of Blogging Series - Part Eight: Using Email As An Advertising Tool


9. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Nine - RSS Mania Addiction An Introduction To RSS and the Terminology


10. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Ten - Outline of How to Create an RSS Feed


11. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Eleven - Debunking a Few RSS Myths


12. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Twelve - The RSS Feed Template File


13. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Thirteen - The Basic Elements in the "Channel" Element


14. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 14 - How the RSS Feed Works & Some Programming Constructs


15. Basics of Blogging - Part 15 - Editor Tools - Qumana & Performancing Extension for Firefox


16. Basics of Blogging - Part 15A - Qumana's Drop Pad


17. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 16 - RSS Channel Sub-Elements Specifically "Image" (& How To Use It)


18. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 17 - RSS - The Elements Within the "Item" Element


19. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 18 - RSS - Podcasting, VideoCasting & The Magic of the Enclosure Sub-Element


20. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 19 - RSS - Rounding Out The Multi-Media - The CDATA Command


21. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 20 - RSS - A Basic Template File to Create Your Very Own RSS Feed


22. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 21 - RSS - A Full RSS Template File to Create Your Very Own RSS Feed


23. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 22 - RSS - A Full RSS Feed Template For Podcasting & VideoCasting

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Basics of Blogging Series: Part 23 - RSS - How To Get Your RSS Feed Up On The Web

Basics of Blogging Series: Part 22 - RSS - A Full RSS Feed Template For Podcasting & VideoCasting

This is a "full level" RSS template. Here we add the enclosure command for PodCasting. My previous article had the basic bare-bones template and the full template with the CDATA construct. Now we will have a template for Podcasting or Videocasting.

You can easily copy and paste this into a template. If you are not a techie and dealing with XML for the first time, use a decent text only editor, unless you can use FrontPage or DreamWeaver or a dedicated XML editor. Be careful of any extra charcters that you may sneak in with your typing, and remember not to touch the opening or closing brackets. If you do not know what you are doing do NOT touch the first three lines. The line beginning with the "channel" element is where you should begin to substitute the information on your feed.

Below we have two items in this channel. You can of course add as many items as your heart desires. Just keep on adding the entire section of beginning and ending with <item></item> and filling in the information.

Just to remind you. The enclosure command consists of three parts:

1. url - The URL of the actual enclosure.


2. length - The size in bytes and not an estimate but a total exact size


3. type - A standard MIME type, e.g. Audio, Video, Text etc. A list and explanation of standard MIME types can be found here - http://www.fileformat.info/info/mimetype/standard.htm

By the way. We are keeping RandyPandy's Perfumery, but since his wife Sandy loves Janis Joplin the enclosure command will contain Summertime from Janis. Hope you don't mind!

First a template with information and then a template without.
(The editing software forces an empty line between each command however in your Feed you should not have any empty lines. Just delete the lines with no information if you copy & paste)

First a template with information and then a template without.

<?xml version="1.0"  encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type='text/css' ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

<channel>

<title>Randy Pandy's Perfumery</title>
<description> RSS Feed for The Great Perfume Products Sold At Randy's Pandy's Perfumery </description>
<copyright>"Copyright 2006 Randy Pandy's Perfumery - All Rights Reserved"</copyright>
<link>http://www.randypandy.com</link>
<language>en-us</language>
<managingEditor>randypandy@randypandy.com (Randy Pandy)</managingEditor> <webMaster>webmaster@randypandy.com (Pandy Randy)</webMaster>
<category>Ecommerce</category>
<lastBuildDate>Sun, 4 Dec 2006 23:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
<pubdate>Mon, 5 Dec 2006 23:00:00 GMT</pubdate>
<image>

<title>Randy Pandy's Perfumery</title>
<width>142</width><height>99</height>
<link>http://www.randpandy.com</link>
<url>http://www.randpandy.com/images/randylogo.jpg</url>

</image>
<item>

<title>Heaven Scent Perfume At 50% Discount</title>
<link>http://www.randypandy.com/perfumes/heavenscent.html</link>
<description> [CDATA[<img border="0" src="http://www.randypandy.com/janis/ballchain.JPG" width="138" height="180"/></a><p> Summertime, And the livin' is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Your daddy's rich And your mamma's good lookin' So hush little baby Don't you cry One of these mornings You're going to rise up singing Then you'll spread your wings And you'll take to the sky But till that morning There's a'nothing can harm you With daddy and mamma standing by Summertime, And the livin' is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Your daddy's rich And your mamma's good lookin' So hush little baby Don't you cry <br clear=all>]]</description>
<author>George Gershwin sung by Janis Joplin</author>
<category>Blues</category>
<category>Jazz</category>
<category>Greatest Singers</category>
<comments>http://www.janisjoplin.com/comments/summertime.html</comments>
<enclosure url="http://www.janisjoplin.com/mp3s/summertime.mp3" length="4368242" type="audio/mpeg"/>
<guid isPermaLink="true"> http://www.randypandy.com/janis/janisjoplin.html</guid>
<source url="http://www.gershwin.com/summertime.xml">Author of Summertime</source>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2006 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

Now Just the Bare Bones Template.

<?xml version="1.0"  encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type='text/css' ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

<channel>

<title></title>
<description>  </description>
<copyright></copyright>
<link></link>
<language></language>
<managingEditor></managingEditor>
<webMaster></webMaster>
<category></category>
<lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate>
<pubdate></pubdate>
<image>

<title></title>
<width></width><height></height>
<link></link>
<url></url>

</image>
<item>

<title></title>
<link></link>
<description> [CDATA[<img border="0" src="" <br clear=all>]]</description>
<author></author>
<category></category>
<category></category>
<category></category>
<comments></comments>
<enclosure url="" length="" type=""/>
<guid isPermaLink="true"> </guid>
<source url=""></source>
<pubDate></pubDate>

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

This will work and without too much trouble if you want to create a full RSS feed including enclosures for music or video this is what you need.

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Previous Articles In This Series:

1. The Basics of Blogging and Web Site Creation - Part One: Content Is King


2. The Basics of Blogging and Web Site Creation - Part Two: Introduction To Keywords


3. Part Three - Keywords, Tags, Categories - Oh Vey! I Am So Mixed Up!


4. Blogging & Website Basics - Part Four: So How The Hell Do I Get Bonafide Links To My Blog?


5. Blogging - Part Five: Trying to Understand the Psychology Behind It All


6. Blogging - Part Six: Viral Technology - An Introduction


7. Blogging - Part Seven: Article Submission As A Tool To Extend Your Reach


8. Basics Of Blogging Series - Part Eight: Using Email As An Advertising Tool


9. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Nine - RSS Mania Addiction An Introduction To RSS and the Terminology


10. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Ten - Outline of How to Create an RSS Feed


11. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Eleven - Debunking a Few RSS Myths


12. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Twelve - The RSS Feed Template File


13. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Thirteen - The Basic Elements in the "Channel" Element


14. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 14 - How the RSS Feed Works & Some Programming Constructs


15. Basics of Blogging - Part 15 - Editor Tools - Qumana & Performancing Extension for Firefox


16. Basics of Blogging - Part 15A - Qumana's Drop Pad


17. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 16 - RSS Channel Sub-Elements Specifically "Image" (& How To Use It)


18. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 17 - RSS - The Elements Within the "Item" Element


19. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 18 - RSS - Podcasting, VideoCasting & The Magic of the Enclosure Sub-Element


20. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 19 - RSS - Rounding Out The Multi-Media - The CDATA Command


21. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 20 - RSS - A Basic Template File to Create Your Very Own RSS Feed


22. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 21 - RSS - A Full RSS Template File to Create Your Very Own RSS Feed

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Basics of Blogging Series: Part 22 - RSS - A Full RSS Feed Template For Podcasting & VideoCasting

Basics of Blogging Series: Part 21 - RSS - A Full RSS Template File to Create Your Very Own RSS Feed

This is a "medium level" RSS template. Here we add some more Channel information plus the CDATA command along with the rest of item commands. This template is without the "enclosure" command. My previous article had the basic bare-bones template and my next one will have a template you can use for Podcasting or Videocasting.

You can easily copy and paste this into a template. If you are not a techie and dealing with XML for the first time, use a decent text only editor, unless you can use FrontPage or DreamWeaver or a dedicated XML editor. Be careful of any extra charcters that you may sneak in with your typing, and remember not to touch the opening or closing brackets. If you do not know what you are doing do NOT touch the first three lines. The line beginning with the "channel" element is where you should begin to substitute the information on your feed.

Below we have one full item and one bare bones item in this channel. You can of course add as many items as your heart desires. Just keep on adding the entire section of beginning and ending with <item></item> and filling in the information.

The editing software forces an empty line between each command however in your Feed you should not have any empty lines. Just delete the lines with no information if you copy & paste.


First a template with information and then a template without.

<?xml version="1.0"  encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type='text/css' ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

<channel>

<title>Randy Pandy's Perfumery</title>
<description> RSS Feed for The Great Perfume Products Sold At Randy's Pandy's Perfumery </description>
<copyright>"Copyright 2006 Randy Pandy's Perfumery - All Rights Reserved"</copyright>
<link>http://www.randypandy.com</link>
<language>en-us</language>
<managingEditor>randypandy@randypandy.com (Randy Pandy)</managingEditor> <webMaster>webmaster@randypandy.com (Pandy Randy)</webMaster>
<category>Ecommerce</category>
<lastBuildDate>Sun, 4 Dec 2006 23:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
<pubdate>Mon, 5 Dec 2006 23:00:00 GMT</pubdate>
<image>

<title>Randy Pandy's Perfumery</title>
<width>142</width><height>99</height>
<link>http://www.randpandy.com</link>
<url>http://www.randpandy.com/images/randylogo.jpg</url>

</image>
<item>

<title>Heaven Scent Perfume At 50% Discount</title>
<link>http://www.randypandy.com/perfumes/heavenscent.html</link>
<description> [CDATA[<img border="0" src="http://www.randypandy.com/perfumes/heaven.JPG" width="138" height="180"/></a><p> Heaven Scent Perfume the Smell your lover will die for. Created especially by Skunk Perfumes it is their newest and best selling perfume on the market today. Purchase a beautifully shaped skunk bottle with this incredible perfume and get a whopping 50% off! And if you purchase over $100 we will throw in Free overnight delivery as well! randypandy.com - All Perfumes You Can Ever Desire <br clear=all>]]</description>
<author>sandy@randypandy.com Sandy Pandy - The Queen of Scent)</author>
<category>Perfume</category>
<category>On-Line Shopping</category>
<comments>http://www.randypandy.com/perfumes/comments/skunkyheavenscent.html</comments>
<guid isPermaLink="true"> http://www.randypandy.com/perfumes/heavenscent.html</guid>
<source url="http://www.yaddayadda/hs.xml">Secret Source of Heaven Scent Publicity</source>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2006 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>

</item>
<item>

<title>Angel Face Cream</title>
<link>http://www.randypandy.com/cosmetics/angel.html</link>
<description> A new face cream which will get rid of all your wrinkles in 7 days or your money back! Buy the lover in your life the best present she ever had!</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2006 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

Now Just the Bare Bones Template.





<?xml version="1.0"  encoding="utf-8"?>

 <?xml-stylesheet type='text/css' ?>

 <rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

<channel>

<title></title>
<description></description>
<copyright></copyright>
<link></link>
<language></language>
<managingEditor></managingEditor>
<webMaster></webMaster>
<pubdate></pubdate>
<category></category>
<lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate>
<image>

<title></title>
width></width><height></height>
<link></link>
<url></url>

</image>
<Item>

<title></title>
<link></link>
<description>[CDATA[<br clear=all>]] </description>
<author></author>
<category></category>
<comments></comments>
<guid></guid>
<source></source>
<pubDate></pubDate>

</Item>
<Item>

<title></title>
<link></link>
<description>[CDATA[<br clear=all>]] </description>
<author></author>
<category></category>
<comments></comments>
<guid></guid>
<source></source>
<pubDate></pubDate>

</Item>

</Channel>

</rss>

This will work and without too much trouble if you want to create a full RSS feed (with no enclosures for music or video) this is what you need.

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Previous Articles In This Series:

1. The Basics of Blogging and Web Site Creation - Part One: Content Is King


2. The Basics of Blogging and Web Site Creation - Part Two: Introduction To Keywords


3. Part Three - Keywords, Tags, Categories - Oh Vey! I Am So Mixed Up!


4. Blogging & Website Basics - Part Four: So How The Hell Do I Get Bonafide Links To My Blog?


5. Blogging - Part Five: Trying to Understand the Psychology Behind It All


6. Blogging - Part Six: Viral Technology - An Introduction


7. Blogging - Part Seven: Article Submission As A Tool To Extend Your Reach


8. Basics Of Blogging Series - Part Eight: Using Email As An Advertising Tool


9. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Nine - RSS Mania Addiction An Introduction To RSS and the Terminology


10. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Ten - Outline of How to Create an RSS Feed


11. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Eleven - Debunking a Few RSS Myths


12. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Twelve - The RSS Feed Template File


13. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Thirteen - The Basic Elements in the "Channel" Element


14. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 14 - How the RSS Feed Works & Some Programming Constructs


15. Basics of Blogging - Part 15 - Editor Tools - Qumana & Performancing Extension for Firefox


16. Basics of Blogging - Part 15A - Qumana's Drop Pad


17. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 16 - RSS Channel Sub-Elements Specifically "Image" (& How To Use It)


18. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 17 - RSS - The Elements Within the "Item" Element


19. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 18 - RSS - Podcasting, VideoCasting & The Magic of the Enclosure Sub-Element


20. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 19 - RSS - Rounding Out The Multi-Media - The CDATA Command


21. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 20 - RSS - A Basic Template File to Create Your Very Own RSS Feed

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Basics of Blogging Series: Part 21 - RSS - A Full RSS Template File to Create Your Very Own RSS Feed

Basics of Blogging Series: Part 20 - RSS - A Basic Template File to Create Your Very Own RSS Feed

This is a bare-bones RSS template. Well it is a bit more than "bare-bones" however, it only contains the information at the minimum you should have in your RSS file. My next two articles will have the "medium level" and "full level" (good if you intend to Podcast).

You can easily copy and paste this into a template. If you are not a techie and dealing with XML for the first time, use a decent text only editor, unless you can use FrontPage or DreamWeaver or a dedicated XML editor. Be careful of any extra charcters that you may sneak in with your typing, and remember not to touch the opening or closing brackets. If you do not know what you are doing do NOT touch the first three lines. The line beginning with the "channel" element is where you should begin to substitute the information on your feed.

Below we have two items in this channel. You can of course add as many items as your heart desires. Just keep on adding the entire section of beginning and ending with
<item></item>
and filling in the information.

The editing software forces an empty line between each command however in your Feed you should not have any empty lines. Just delete the lines with no information if you copy & paste.

First a template with information and then a template without.

<?xml version="1.0"  encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type='text/css' ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

<channel>

<title>Randy Pandy's Perfumery</title>
<description> RSS Feed for The Great Perfume Products Sold At Randy's Pandy's Perfumery </description>
<copyright>"Copyright 2006 Randy Pandy's Perfumery - All Rights Reserved"</copyright>
<link>http://www.randypandy.com</link>
<language>en-us</language>
<pubdate>Mon, 5 Dec 2006 23:00:00 GMT</pubdate>
<image>

<title>Randy Pandy's Perfumery</title>
<width>142</width><height>99</height>
<link>http://www.randpandy.com</link>
<url>http://www.randpandy.com/images/randylogo.jpg</url>

</image>
<item>

<title>Heaven Scent Perfume At 50% Discount</title>
<link>http://www.randypandy.com/perfumes/heavenscent.html</link>
<description> Heaven Scent Perfume - your lover will love.  Created especially by Skunk Perfumes it is their newest and best selling perfume on the market today. Purchase a beautifully shaped skunk bottle with this incredible perfume and get a whopping 50% off! And if you purchase over $100 we will throw in Free overnight delivery as well!</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2006 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>

</item>
<item>

<title>Angel Face Cream</title>
<link>http://www.randypandy.com/cosmetics/angel.html</link>
<description> A new face cream which will get rid of all your wrinkles in 7 days or your money back! Buy the lover in your life the best present she ever had!</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2006 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

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Now Just the Bare Bones Template.


<?xml version="1.0"  encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type='text/css' ?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

<channel>

<title></title>
<description></description>
<copyright></copyright>
<link></link>
<language></language>
<pubdate></pubdate>
<image>

<title></title>
width></width><height></height>
<link></link>
<url></url>

</image>
<Item>

<title></title>
<link></link>
<description></description>
<pubDate></pubDate>

</Item>
<Item>

<title></title>
<link></link>
<description></description>
<pubDate></pubDate>

</Item>

</Channel>

</rss>


This will work and without too much trouble if you want to create a simple RSS feed this is what you need.

Previous Articles In This Series:

1. The Basics of Blogging and Web Site Creation - Part One: Content Is King


2. The Basics of Blogging and Web Site Creation - Part Two: Introduction To Keywords


3. Part Three - Keywords, Tags, Categories - Oh Vey! I Am So Mixed Up!


4. Blogging & Website Basics - Part Four: So How The Hell Do I Get Bonafide Links To My Blog?


5. Blogging - Part Five: Trying to Understand the Psychology Behind It All


6. Blogging - Part Six: Viral Technology - An Introduction


7. Blogging - Part Seven: Article Submission As A Tool To Extend Your Reach


8. Basics Of Blogging Series - Part Eight: Using Email As An Advertising Tool


9. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Nine - RSS Mania Addiction An Introduction To RSS and the Terminology


10. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Ten - Outline of How to Create an RSS Feed


11. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Eleven - Debunking a Few RSS Myths


12. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Twelve - The RSS Feed Template File


13. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Thirteen - The Basic Elements in the "Channel" Element


14. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 14 - How the RSS Feed Works & Some Programming Constructs


15. Basics of Blogging - Part 15 - Editor Tools - Qumana & Performancing Extension for Firefox


16. Basics of Blogging - Part 15A - Qumana's Drop Pad


17. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 16 - RSS Channel Sub-Elements Specifically "Image" (& How To Use It)


18. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 17 - RSS - The Elements Within the "Item" Element


19. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 18 - RSS - Podcasting, VideoCasting & The Magic of the Enclosure Sub-Element


20. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 19 - RSS - Rounding Out The Multi-Media - The CDATA Command

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Basics of Blogging Series: Part 19 - RSS - Rounding Out The Multi-Media - The CDATA Command

The Controversial CDATA programming construct has caused somewhat of a love-hate relationship among RSS programmers. What is CDATA? Well to put it in very easy terms, it allows us to place within the description sub-element of Item, HTML commands and language. In other words it extends the description by allowing us to create links, references and the like within what is purely a text element created to describe the item. Remember that within the Item element, the sub-element of description will look like this.

<description>Here is where I describe the item in my RSS feed</description>

Let us say I want to extend this piece and I wanted to get a Bold command with the <b> </b> tags; or Italics with the <i> </i> tags command or something else within it. Or perhaps I would want to place a break in the lines <br> dividing it up? Or maybe I want to get more sophisticated? Let me give you an example.

Remember Randy Pandy and his Perfumery at randypandy.com? Well now not only does his wife Sandy want to describe the HeavenScent Skunk Perfume but she wants a picture of the bottle with the description. So, hold on, you say. Easy as pie. Use the enclosure command. Well right and not right. Sure you can put a picture of the perfume bottle in the enclosure command, but it will NOT appear WITH the description. It will appear alone and then the user will have to read the description. So while this is GREAT for audio and video a plain visual that I want next to a description kind of gets left alone if I just put in an enclosure. So we have the description, and for the sake of all I will repeat it here.

<description> Heaven Scent Perfume the Smell your lover will die for. Created especially by Skunk Perfumes it is their newest and best selling perfume on the market today. Purchase a beautifully shaped skunk bottle with this incredible perfume and get a whopping 50% off! And if you purchase over $100 we will throw in Free overnight delivery as well! </description>

Okay now Sandy wants a picture to go right into that description and when the user sees the text in their aggregator they will also get a
visual. Thus the CDATA command. First lets look at it in action and then we will explain.

<description> [CDATA[<img border="0" src="http://www.randypandy.com/perfumes/heaven.JPG" width="138" height="180"/></a><p>
Heaven Scent Perfume the Smell your lover will die for. Created especially by Skunk Perfumes it is their newest and best selling perfume on the market today. Purchase a beautifully shaped skunk bottle with this incredible perfume and get a whopping 50% off! And if you purchase over $100 we will throw in Free overnight delivery as well! </p><p>randypandy.com - All Perfumes You Can Ever desire </p> </p><br clear=all>]] </description>

Notice first what we did? First we set the tag description. Then within it immediately we tell the file "Hey get ready for some good old HTML", and thus we add the [CDATA[ Next we want our picture of the perfume. So for those of you who know HTML this is simple. We give it the image information.

<img border="0" src="http://www.randypandy.com/perfumes/heaven.JPG" width="138" height="180"/></a> 

After that we continue with our description. Get in a few line breaks with either the <p> </p> or <BR> </BR> constructs. Then
finally before the end we close it off with ]] tag.

You can get fairly sophisticated with CDATA. The thing is many programmers do NOT like it, as it allows too many rooms for mistakes, and it is a throwback to old HTML. The purity of the XML is kind of compromised here. But it serves a purpose and allows us to get a picture with the words, which is incredibly important. Many, many RSS feeds use it, and it is a very useful tool to get the "picture" across to the user. You can combine it as well with enclosure, to get an audio out, a description, and say a picture of the Album. In other words a full media experience of text + picture + audio.

Well that is it. Our next article will put it all together and give you a look at the final well formed XML file which will act as our template for rss.xml. It will lay it all out for you with a couple of items, so you can grab it and use it for your RSS feed.

Previous Articles In This Series:

1. The Basics of Blogging and Web Site Creation - Part One: Content Is King


2. The Basics of Blogging and Web Site Creation - Part Two: Introduction To Keywords


3. Part Three - Keywords, Tags, Categories - Oh Vey! I Am So Mixed Up!


4. Blogging & Website Basics - Part Four: So How The Hell Do I Get Bonafide Links To My Blog?


5. Blogging - Part Five: Trying to Understand the Psychology Behind It All


6. Blogging - Part Six: Viral Technology - An Introduction


7. Blogging - Part Seven: Article Submission As A Tool To Extend Your Reach


8. Basics Of Blogging Series - Part Eight: Using Email As An Advertising Tool


9. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Nine - RSS Mania Addiction An Introduction To RSS and the Terminology


10. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Ten - Outline of How to Create an RSS Feed


11. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Eleven - Debunking a Few RSS Myths


12. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Twelve - The RSS Feed Template File


13. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Thirteen - The Basic Elements in the "Channel" Element


14. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 14 - How the RSS Feed Works & Some Programming Constructs


15. Basics of Blogging - Part 15 - Editor Tools - Qumana & Performancing Extension for Firefox


16. Basics of Blogging - Part 15A - Qumana's Drop Pad


17. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 16 - RSS Channel Sub-Elements Specifically "Image" (& How To Use It)


18. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 17 - RSS - The Elements Within the "Item" Element


19. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 18 - RSS - Podcasting, VideoCasting & The Magic of the Enclosure Sub-Element

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Basics of Blogging Series: Part 18 - RSS - Podcasting, VideoCasting & The Magic of the Enclosure Sub-Element

Now it is time for Magic. Ever hear the term "PodCasting?" Well it originally came from the Apple IPod and that little device that has swept the world allowing everyone to hook into their favorite music (and now video etc.) The RSS specifications grew with the world around it and therefore the little XML "enclosure" command came to be found within the files.

What does this mean? Well at first RSS was limited to the text format. What RSS first generation files were doing were spreading the news of the world in small little text headline files. Of course the human desire for ever more and more is impossible to stop. What if we wanted to send picture? Well there is the [!Cdata command which we will discuss in the next article. But what if I wanted to send some type of information that was not text? That is where the enclosure does its magic.

Why would an author want to create a Podcast? Well there are many valid reasons to do so. Let us say you are just beginning and are writing poetry. You place some of it on your Website, or just the fact that you are writing poetry. You can then record a few poems, put them in the appropriate file format and place the recordings to your poetry within a Podcast. Or if you are an artist, and you want to sell some of your pictures. You can put them up on your web site, create an RSS/XML feed with pictures and sound explaining each picture, and let people update themselves with your feed everytime you update the web site. There are a 1001 legitimate uses for podcasting, videocasting and placing simple pictures within your feed. (To place pictures within a specific entry you will have to read about the [!Cdata command in the next few articles.)

Within enclosure I can actually place any audio, mpg, jpeg. or whatever into that little element. And what this means to the aggregator is, "Hey, my RSS file also has a few small additions that come with it. Grab those as well." And as part of this element the RSS file also says, "Hey, this is the format and this is the size of the file. Because I am being courteous and nice, and I want you the aggregator to know just how much you have to grab."

For those quick thinkers out there, what one can actually do in an RSS file is this. Take Janis Joplin and her album "Ball & Chain". Well we would create an item for each of the songs, (I will show you how to do this in another article), describe each one of them in the "description" element and put an mp3 of the song defined in the item in the enclosure command. And then anyone who wanted to get my RSS feed on Janis would be able to read a description of the songs and listen to them.

Or say I wanted to release a few short-shorts on Shakespeare's Sonnets. I would read them, record them, and then put the text of each into the description and my mp3 recording into the enclosure. Voila! An RSS on Shakespeare.

One critical caveat. Remember these are not text files and therefore they can get large. The larger they are the more the aggregator has to grab, the more bandwidth etc. Remember that when you release your songs on the Net in an RSS file for those IPod-ers out there!

Just to remind you. The enclosure command consists of three parts:

1. url - The URL of the actual enclosure.


2. length - The size in bytes and not an estimate but a total size


3. type - A standard MIME type, e.g. Audio, Video, Text etc. A list and explanation of standard MIME types can be found here - http://www.fileformat.info/info/mimetype/standard.htm

Lets see how this would be done, without too much coding. We will begin with the Item Element, so this is just a part of the RSS file. (I left
out the guid here.)

<Item>

<title>Summertime by Janis Joplin</title>
<link>http://www.janisjoplin.com/songs/summertime.html</link>
<description> Summertime, And the livin' is easy,  Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high,  Your daddy's rich And your mamma's good lookin',  So hush little baby Don't you cry,  One of these mornings You're going to rise up singing, Then you'll spread your wings And you'll take to the sky  But till that morning There's a'nothing can harm you  With daddy and mamma standing by Summertime, And the livin' is easy  Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Your daddy's rich And your mamma's good lookin'  So hush little baby Don't you cry </description>
<author>George Gershwin sung by Janis Joplin</author>
<category>Blues</category>
<category>Jazz</category>
<comments>http://www.janisjoplin.com/comments/summertime.html</comments>
<enclosure url="http://www.janisjoplin.com/mp3s/summertime.mp3"  length="4368242"  type="audio/mpeg"/>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2006 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>

</Item>

There you have it. An RSS PodCast. One item of the song "Summertime". Of course your RSS will have every song on the album. Anyone who applies to the feed will be able to listen to all of Janis's songs in their RSS feed - Their Podcast. And you can do the same with a video, pictures etc. For all the "current" terminology take a look at Wikipedia.

The next article we will attack the controversial [!Cdata command structure. After that you will have a complete well formed XML - RSS file.

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Previous Articles In This Series:

1. The Basics of Blogging and Web Site Creation - Part One: Content Is King


2. The Basics of Blogging and Web Site Creation - Part Two: Introduction To Keywords


3. Part Three - Keywords, Tags, Categories - Oh Vey! I Am So Mixed Up!


4. Blogging & Website Basics - Part Four: So How The Hell Do I Get Bonafide Links To My Blog?


5. Blogging - Part Five: Trying to Understand the Psychology Behind It All


6. Blogging - Part Six: Viral Technology - An Introduction


7. Blogging - Part Seven: Article Submission As A Tool To Extend Your Reach


8. Basics Of Blogging Series - Part Eight: Using Email As An Advertising Tool


9. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Nine - RSS Mania Addiction An Introduction To RSS and the Terminology


10. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Ten - Outline of How to Create an RSS Feed


11. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Eleven - Debunking a Few RSS Myths


12. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Twelve - The RSS Feed Template File


13. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Thirteen - The Basic Elements in the "Channel" Element


14. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 14 - How the RSS Feed Works & Some Programming Constructs


15. Basics of Blogging - Part 15 - Editor Tools - Qumana & Performancing Extension for Firefox


16. Basics of Blogging - Part 15A - Qumana's Drop Pad


17. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 16 - RSS Channel Sub-Elements Specifically "Image" (& How To Use It)


18. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 17 - RSS - The Elements Within the "Item" Element

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Basics of Blogging Series: Part 17 - RSS - The Elements Within the "Item" Element

Now we have covered the major points in the "Channel" element, we will now cover the Item element. Hang on to your seats, but you should breeze through this part fairly easily already. Remember our purpose is to create an RSS feed template that you can use, and what is known as a "well-formed XML document" which will pass validation with flying colors! (And make you into a techie as well!)

(For the techies among us I am not going into the "dc:" tags from RSS 1.0 For those who are interested they should take a look at W3C docs on RSS 2.0 and also view the RSS 2.0 specifications.)

First to get you familiar with the lingo we will use here, these are the possible inclusions in your "Item" tag. Some of them should be familiar. Pay Attention that the syntax is NOT the same for some specifically for enclosure & source.

1. <title></title>


2. <link></link>


3. <description></description>


4. <author></author>


5. <category></category>


6. <comments></comments>


7. <enclosure "information of enclosure goes here" />


8. <guid></guid>


9. <pubdate></pubdate>


10. <source url="http://www.yaddayadda/yadda.rss">Babble</source>

Some of the above are simple, others can get complicated. So we will work on this step by step and in the end you will have an incredible RSS feed. Remember you do NOT need to place all of these in your feed. You can get away with the title, link & description (and you should put the pubdate in as well). HOWEVER, these are important commands and some like enclosure can open up worlds of possibilities for you.

So first the descriptions and explanations.

1. Our Title here is the title of this item within the Channel. Remember this is our "Chapter Heading". Fairly easy. So here we would want to put, "Heaven Scent Perfume At 50% Discount." So this is how our title will read:
   <title>Heaven Scent Perfume At 50% Discount</title>


2. Next comes our all important link. Where to find the data. So here Randy has a whole web page devoted to selling Heaven Scent perfume.
   <link>http://www.randypandy.com/perfumes/heavenscent.html</link>


3. Okay our description is cool. Hey all we want here is to define the perfume. Right? Well, lets do that for the time being.
   <description>Heaven Scent Perfume the Smell your lover will die for.  Created especially by Skunk Perfumes it is their newest and best selling perfume on the market today. Purchase a beautifully shaped skunk bottle with this incredible perfume and get a whopping 50% off! And if you purchase over $100 we will throw in Free overnight delivery as well!</description>
   (Now don't get carried away just yet. Sure we have a description. But what if we want to get a picture in that description? What if we want the user to see in his aggregator not just words but an image as well? Well, that can be done too, BUT you will have to wait for my next installment!)


4. Okay author is really simple stuff, except Randy Pandy's wife, Sandy, is in a huff cause she is the one who has written all the publicity material. So here we will give her credit with her email as well.
   <author>sandy@randypandy.com (Sandy Pandy - The Queen of Scent)</author>


5. First & foremost the category term is not limited to one. You can place as many categories as your little heart desires. What is the category? Well here Randy wants to put, "Perfume" and Sandy wants to put "On-Line Shopping", and Randy's kids want to put "Skunk Perfume" cause they think it is cool. (You can even put a URL in there with an "href") So our category may look like this:
   <category>Perfume</category>
   <category>On-Line Shopping</category>
   <category>Skunk Perfume</category>
   <category domain="http://www.perfumesoftheworld.com/greatsmells">Skunks</category>
   Don't worry! For our final XML file we will just use one category.


6. Best way to explain comments is to understand that this is URL which points to a page which is actually comments about "Heaven Scent Perfume". Randy & Sandy maintain a page for each item where clients can leave their remarks (this can also be a blog as well). So here we would put:
   <comments>http://www.randypandy.com/perfumes/comments/skunkyheavenscent.html</comments>


7. Enclosure is the MAGIC of RSS. Pure Magic. It is what allows you to Podcast and VideoCast and do all that incredible stuff with RSS. However, this will be discussed at length in a following article. What we want to know here is that in enclosure I can put an image, a video, a voice recording etc. So let us say I want to release "Summertime" by Janis Joplin (swooning here!) in my RSS. Here is where I would put the information on the file.
   <enclosure url="http://www.randypandy.com/mp3s/janis/summertime.mp3" length="5588242" type="audio/mpeg"/>
   The Url to the file. followed by the "weight" of the file (exactly how big it is) and this goes for jpg, mpg etc. and the type of file. (Again
   we will lay all this out in another article). So far so good? But Sandy (remember her?) she does not like Janis. And besides she feels that we should put the Heaven Scent Song inside the enclosure. So our enclosure will really look like this:
   <enclosure url="http://www.randypandy.com/mp3s/heavenscentcomm.mp3" length="4368242" type="audio/mpeg"/>


8. A GUID means "Globally Unique Identifier". By giving your item a "barcode" you can allow the aggregator to determine if it has to be updated or not. You can tell it if the link is permanent or not called a "PermaLink" (which is familiar to Bloggers).
   <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.randypandy.com/perfumes/heavenscent.html</guid>


9. Okay I expect you to know pubdate already!
   <pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>


10. The source command requires a URL and is used to give credit to the source of the article. This is used mostly when publishing to a Blog from somewhere else so the URL of the source is saved. So when we publish to RandyPandy.com all this information on his perfume it would read:
    <source url="http://www.yaddayadda/hs.xml">Secret Source of Heaven Scent Publicity</source>

Now don't go get confused. The only serious commands here are description and enclosure. And yes we will get a bit into "description" in our next article, and round out missing information on "enclosure" as well.

Okay lets see what are rss.xml file which will make our RSS feed looks like until now. (Due to the demands of the editing software used some of the commands appear as if on two lines. This is fine. When you create your template in the end just remember that everything between the first < and the last > is one command!)

<channel>

<title>Randy Pandy's Perfumery</title>
<description>RSS Feed for The Great Perfume Products Sold At Randy's Pandy's Perfumery</description>
<copyright>"Copyright 2006 Randy Pandy's Perfumery - All Rights Reserved"</copyright>
<link>http://www.randypandy.com</link>
<language>en-us</language>
<managingEditor>randypandy@randypandy.com (Randy Pandy)</managingEditor>
<webMaster>webmaster@randypandy.com (Pandy Randy)</webMaster>
<category>Ecommerce</category>
<pubdate>Mon, 5 Dec 2005 23:00:00 GMT</pubdate>
<lastBuildDate>Sun, 4 Dec 2005 23:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>
<image>

<title>Randy Pandy's Perfumery</title>
<width>142</width><height>99</height>
<link>http://www.randpandy.com</link>
<url>http://www.randpandy.com/images/randylogo.jpg</url>

</image>
<item>

<title>Heaven Scent Perfume At 50% Discount</title>
<link>http://www.randypandy.com/perfumes/heavenscent.html</link>
<description>Heaven Scent Perfume the Smell your lover will die for. Created especially by Skunk Perfumes it is their newest
and best selling perfume on the market today.  Purchase a beautifully shaped skunk bottle with this incredible perfume and get a whopping 50% off! And if you purchase over $100 we will throw in Free overnight delivery as well!</description>
<author>sandy@randypandy.com (Sandy Pandy - The Queen of Scent)</author>
<category>Perfume</category>
<category>On-Line Shopping</category>
<comments>http://www.randypandy.com/comments/skunkheaven.html</comments>
<enclosure url="http://www.randypandy.com/mp3s/heavenscentcomm.mp3" length="4368242" type="audio/mpeg"/>
<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.randypandy.com/perfumes/heavenscent.html</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.yaddayadda/hs.xml">Secret Source Publicity</source>

</item>

</channel>

There you have the basics of Channel.
Our next article will discuss the innards of "description" & "enclosure".

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Previous Articles In This Series:

1. The Basics of Blogging and Web Site Creation - Part One: Content Is King


2. The Basics of Blogging and Web Site Creation - Part Two: Introduction To Keywords


3. Part Three - Keywords, Tags, Categories - Oh Vey! I Am So Mixed Up!


4. Blogging & Website Basics - Part Four: So How The Hell Do I Get Bonafide Links To My Blog?


5. Blogging - Part Five: Trying to Understand the Psychology Behind It All


6. Blogging - Part Six: Viral Technology - An Introduction


7. Blogging - Part Seven: Article Submission As A Tool To Extend Your Reach


8. Basics Of Blogging Series - Part Eight: Using Email As An Advertising Tool


9. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Nine - RSS Mania Addiction An Introduction To RSS and the Terminology


10. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Ten - Outline of How to Create an RSS Feed


11. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Eleven - Debunking a Few RSS Myths


12. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Twelve - The RSS Feed Template File


13. Basics of Blogging Series: Part Thirteen - The Basic Elements in the "Channel" Element


14. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 14 - How the RSS Feed Works & Some Programming Constructs


15. Basics of Blogging - Part 15 - Editor Tools - Qumana & Performancing Extension for Firefox


16. Basics of Blogging - Part 15A - Qumana's Drop Pad


17. Basics of Blogging Series: Part 16 - RSS Channel Sub-Elements Specifically "Image" (& How To Use It)

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