How to Program RSS Feeds for Your Websites?

Making your own RSS feed is not difficult. It may so happen that your articles are published at different places and you want to display them on your website or blog. Now, you can simply copy your links with anchor text to display your articles but your intention is to allow your visitors to copy your XML feed or JavaScript Code to their websites or blogs for staying updated with your articles.

APSense provides the following feeds containing all articles, revpages, talents and groups feeds separately. The XML feeds are:

http://www.apsense.com/feed/articles.xml

http://www.apsense.com/feed/revpages.xml

http://www.apsense.com/feed/talents.xml

http://www.apsense.com/feed/groups.xml

These can be fed into any XML reader or converted into JavaScript for placing on your website or blog.

Only XML feed for articles is available for your own articles on your profile page on the left side at the end. In the same way as APSense feeds, your own articles feed can be fed to an XML reader or JavaScript Code be placed on your HTML pages on your websites or blogs.

Remember, the APSense Widget is useful on your own websites or blogs. Why would your visitor place your APSense widget on his website?!

For generating your own XML feeds when ready made feeds are not available like in the case of your own RevPages, you can follow the following method-

1. Write the XML code on your notepad. Name the file as "File_Name.xml"; Save it under "All Files" and; Select encoding as "UTF8".

2. Upload the XML file to any FTP server or choose a free one like: File Manager.

3. Click on the XML file uploaded and copy the URL from the browser. This is the XML feed of your RevPages.

4. If you want the Javascript Code, visit rss-to-javascript.com and feed the XML feed in the converter.

5. Copy the generated JavaScript code and place on your website or blog. You may also give away the script to your visitors for placing on their websites and blogs for viral effect.

I have taken my friend, Salim's RevPages as an example and written the following code:

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http://www.apsense.com/user/salim594

http://www.apsense.com/page/dx-studio-32

http://www.apsense.com/page/free-monthly-websites-2

http://www.apsense.com/page/listwire-the-free-autoresponder

http://www.apsense.com/page/wibiyas-web-toolbar

http://www.apsense.com/page/deltamax

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You can copy the code and modify the Title, Link and Description. If you need a model sample, CLICK HERE.

I saved the above code in NotePad, named the file as "salim-rev-page.xml"; saved it under "All Files" and; selected encoding as "UTF8".

Then I clicked on the XML file and copied the URL of the XML feed from the browser: http://business-website.webs.com/salim-rev-page.xml

Next, I fed the URL of the XML Feed at: http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/p/RSSRDF-Converter___138.html

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URL:  http://business-website.webs.com/salim-rev-page.xml

Show Channel?: YES 

Show "Simplified" Channel?  YES

Number of items: 5 

Show Item Descriptions?: YES

if yes, how many characters (enter 0 to show the complete description): 150 

Show Item Posting Date?: YES 

Link target?: _blank

Font: Default Stylesheet

Font Size: (You may choose these after some practice)

Font Color: (You may choose these after some practice)

Background Color: (You may choose these after some practice)

Use List Elements: YES

Click on "Generate JavaScript"

Copy the script. The code in this example for Salim's RevPages is:

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I have placed the above code in a RevPage to illustrate what has been achieved. Have a look here: RSS Feed of Salim's RevPages.

You can adopt the above method for web page. Care must be taken to avoid using special characters in the description tags.

Note: If you wish to update, include another latest article and remove one oldest article in text notepad file. Then save it as .XML, under all files and UTF8 encoded. The file name should not be changed. Again upload to the File Manager of FTP server and save with the same name. No need to again generate the JavaScript Code!

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