CyBeRHQ
Formerly known as phoenix.uzaynet.nl.
XMLful goodness.
Posted on 09.07.2003 at 15:56:37 by CyBeR

Notice anything different? Well?

Ok, it's the little blue XML button at the top right. Click that, and you'll be presented with an RSS feed of my news stuffs. Whether or not it opens in your browser or your rss aggregator depends on too many things to mention, but if you get it in your browser you can just paste the url in your aggregator. Some smart aggregators can figure the url out by themselves by just pointing them at my main page. (Straw is an example of this.)

Naturally I'll have to elaborate on this a little. RSS feeds are a way of keeping track of updates on a website, without having to visit the site every so often. Instead, you point a feed aggregator to the RSS feed, and it will download and check the feed every x minutes. It'll then update its own list, keeping track of what you've read and what not. You click on a title, and it displays a summary (or, depending on the feed, the entire article). If you want to read more, you have it open your browser. It's a great timesaver.

Oh, and yes. That button is usually orange. But since my site is blue, I got out my trusty paintbrush (of type GIMP, naturally), and painted it blue. Then I went through some hoops to get it displayed properly in all browsers (My god, IE sucks), and there it is! Magic!

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