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Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes 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 two items in this channel. You can of course add... 

Reading time: 7 – 12 minutes This is Part Seven, “The Basic Parts of The Item Element” a continuation from my articles on RSS Part One – RSS Mania Addiction – An Introduction to RSS and the Terminology Part Two – Outline of How to Create an RSS Feed Part Three – The Template File Part Four – The Basic Elements of the Channel Element Part Five – How The RSS Feed Works & Some Programming Constructs Part Six – RSS Channel Sub-Elements Specifically Image & How To Use It 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... 

Reading time: 5 – 8 minutes This is a continuation from my articles on RSS Part One – “RSS Mania Addiction – An Introduction to RSS and the Terminology” Part Two – Outline of How to Create an RSS Feed” Part Three – The Template File” Part Four – The Basic Elements of the Channel Element” In my last article on the major aspects of the “Channel” element, I promised to continue with the sub-elements of the Channel. This I will do in the next article. The time has come to explain how an RSS feed works, as it is critical to understand just what some of the RSS template commands want from us as well as our readers (in their options command.) No doubt towards the end of the series I will return to this information, however before getting into some possibilities in the template file, it is important to understand just what is going on “behind the scenes.” Years ago before the Internet, Windows and all HTML... 

Reading time: 6 – 10 minutes Now that you are familiar with templates, or at least what an RSS Template should look like, and some of the possibilities within the template, let us attack the “Channel” description. This article will deal with Channel Main Elements. The next article will deal with Channel sub-elements more specifically the “image” element. Crtitical Point – None of these are required EXCEPT for the command line. However it would be to your best interest to include some of them. In the previous article we described a channel, but it will do good to go over it again. Look on a Channel as how you choose to define the information you are going to put into the RSS file (remember it is rss.xml” for our series.) For instance if you are putting out an RSS file to get people to look at your Web Site which has information about and sells Perfume, your channel would be: . and read in the RSS File as: That is pretty easy isn’t... 

Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes This is Part Eight The Magic of The Enclosure sub-element Within Item a continuation from my articles on RSS – All available at Ezine Articles (EzineArticles.com) Part One – “RSS Mania Addiction – An Introduction to RSS and the Terminology” Part Two – Outline of How to Create an RSS Feed” Part Three – The Template File” Part Four – The Basic Elements of the Channel Element” Part Five – How The RSS Feed Works & Some Programming Constructs” Part Six – RSS Channel Sub-Elements Specifically Image & How To Use It” Part Seven – Understanding RSS – Part Seven – The Elements Within the “Item” 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.)...