not sure where to start, but i want to make/create an rss feed/page...

[spewn]

i don't quite know the technology, so i'll start in this forum. i want to submit an "rss" feed to yahoo from my site. how do i do this by hand? is it coding, or what...

would like to know good place to start...and please no links to software.

thanks.

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[Foamcow]

It's simply a matter of outputting the information for your feed in a particular format and specifying what type of document it is.

Presumably your data is coming from a database?

In which case you would use a server side language to get the relevant info from your database and feed it to whatever was requesting the info in the format expected.

There are different "flavours" of RSS, find out which one(s) Yahoo wants then google (or even yahoo) for information as to that format.

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[Foamcow]

this might be useful for you

http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2175271

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[manarth]

Firstly, there are multiple (and quite different) versions of RSS. (This article discusses some of the differences.) The common theme is that an RSS feed is essentially an XML file.

It's not pushed to different sites; it's just like an HTML file - a user/program/website has to download your feed from your site. When you update the feed, there's no way to push the updates to your visitors - they have to check your RSS file to see if it's been updated.

I don't know what you mean when you say 'submit an "rss" feed to yahoo': the basics for providing RSS is:
- create the RSS file (you can do this using a text editor)
- upload it to your web server (e.g. [ignore]

http://example.com/myRssFeed.rss

[/ignore])
- create a link to your RSS Feed on your web site


Many CMS (Content Management Systems) and blog software automagically generate RSS for you. It can be a PITA to update your RSS manually for every new article.

Here's an RSS example - one of The Register's RSS feeds:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel><title>The Register</title><link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/</link>[/URL] <description>Biting the hand that feeds IT</description><copyright>Copyright 2006, Situation Publishing</copyright><image><title>The Register</title><width>88</width><height>31</height> <url>[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/Reg_default/The_Register_RSS.png</url>[/URL] <link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/</link></image>[/URL] <language>en-GB</language> <webMaster>webmaster@theregister.co.uk</webMaster>
<lastBuildDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:42:05 GMT</lastBuildDate>
<ttl>120</ttl>

<item><title>Windows back door rumor is bunk</title><link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://go.theregister.com/feed/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/21/wmf_fud_from_grc/</link>[/URL] <description>&lt;h4&gt;No reason not to patch it, however&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Contrary to a recent rumor circulating on the internet, Microsoft did not intentionally back-door the majority of Windows systems by means of the &lt;a href="/2006/01/11/ms_january_patch_tuesday/" target="_blank"&gt;WMF vulnerability&lt;/a&gt;. Although it is a serious issue that should be &lt;a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-001.mspx"[/URL] target="_blank"&gt;patched&lt;/a&gt; straight away, the idea that it's a secret back door is quite preposterous.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:22:05 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><title>MS, AOL and Yahoo! caved to Feds' fishing expedition</title><link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://go.theregister.com/feed/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/21/gonzales_vs_google/</link>[/URL] <description>&lt;h4&gt;Inside the DoJ vs Google show trial&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The US Justice Department confirmed yesterday that Microsoft, Yahoo! and AOL have already complied with its request to hand over the details of queries submitted to the search engine - a fact that was disclosed in court documents this week. The DoJ wants the information, not for a criminal prosecution, but as background materia to bolster its attempt to revive a Clinton-era anti-pornography law.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 01:08:44 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><title>HP confirms plan to attack Sun via Solaris</title> <link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://go.theregister.com/feed/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/21/hp_solaris_x86/</link>[/URL] <description>&lt;h4&gt;We've gone from official to announced, captain&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HP has gone really, really public about its support for Sun Microsystems Solaris 10 operating system by sending out an internal memo.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:06:54 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><title>There's no such thing as an open source business</title><link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://go.theregister.com/feed/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/20/sdforum_open_source/</link>[/URL] <description>&lt;h4&gt;Unless it uses Apache&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A gathering of open source pundits have confirmed that the phrase "open source" is what you make of it. We can all breath a little easier now.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:23:14 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><title>Mistakes found in 98% of US patents</title> <link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://go.theregister.com/feed/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/01/20/proofreading_errors_in_software_patents/</link>[/URL] <description>&lt;h4&gt;Indian proofreaders to the rescue!&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Almost every US patent contains at least one mistake, according to new research. The vast majority are trivial errors, most of them the fault of the USPTO; but two per cent of the patents examined were found to contain serious mistakes that weakened the core claims.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:56:36 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><title>Intel answers Itanium mystery with riddle</title><link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://go.theregister.com/feed/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/20/intel_swope_riddle/</link>[/URL] <description>&lt;h4&gt;One full Swope&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The strain of defending the Itanium processor appears to have crushed the spirit of one Intel executive. Will Swope, a VP in Intel's enterprise group, has turned to riddles in order to explain why the company has dropped hardware that could execute x86 instructions from the &lt;strike&gt;delayed&lt;/strike&gt; upcoming dual-core Montecito processor.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:02:03 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><title>Eurovision Search contest: a search engine for Europe</title><link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://go.theregister.com/feed/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/20/quaero_search_europe/</link>[/URL] <description>&lt;h4&gt;The winner is: Boom bang-a-bang&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Writing a decent search engine isn’t all that difficult. Turning it into a multi-billon dollar brand is something else entirely. One needs clever inventors, risk-taking entrepreneurs and clever inventors.…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;
</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:57:45 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><title>Motorola makes up for lost time with Kreatel buy</title><link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://go.theregister.com/feed/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/20/motorola_iptv_kreatel/</link>[/URL] <description>&lt;h4&gt;Set-top maker buy puts Morotola in frame for full IPTV&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Motorola came out of the IPTV closet this week, spending an unspecified amount of cash to buy IPTV specialist set-top maker, Kreatel of Sweden.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:45:33 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><title>USwitch calls in advisors to prep sale</title><link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://go.theregister.com/feed/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/20/uswitch_advisors/</link>[/URL] <description>&lt;h4&gt;Or maybe an IPO&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;USwitch.com - the UK-based utilities comparison web site - has confirmed that the business could be up for sale after appointing financial advisors to carry out a strategic review of the business.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:29:56 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><title>IT security a problem, says FBI</title><link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://go.theregister.com/feed/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/20/fbi_2005_crime_survey/</link>[/URL] <description>&lt;h4&gt;It's done a survey&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;People are frustrated with the "non-stop barrage" of intimidation they get from computer security troublemakers, says the FBI.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:28:08 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><title>South Korea warns Japan over Hynix DRAM tax</title><link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://go.theregister.com/feed/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/01/20/south_korea_vs_japan_hynix/</link>[/URL] <description>&lt;h4&gt;Will go to WTO if import levy imposed&lt;/h4&gt;
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<item><title>UK splashes out £5bn on bumper e-Xmas</title><link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://go.theregister.com/feed/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/20/e_xmas_numbers/</link>[/URL] <description>&lt;h4&gt;Online spending continues to soar&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Consumer demand for online shopping broke more records this Christmas with UK sales up almost 50 per cent compared to last year, according to research from Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG).…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:24:08 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><title>Apple to open stores in Germany, reseller claims</title> <link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://go.theregister.com/feed/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/01/20/apple_germany_retail_plan/</link>[/URL] <description>&lt;h4&gt;A '99.9 per cent probability'&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Apple is planning to open a series of Apple Stores in Germany, with the first shop coming on stream before the end of the year.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:23:05 GMT</pubDate></item>

<item><title>German court orders shutdown of Wikipedia</title> <link>[URL unfurl="true"]http://go.theregister.com/feed/[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/20/wikipedia_shutdown/</link>[/URL] <description>&lt;h4&gt;Dispute over naming of dead hacker&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The German Wikipedia site was taken down by court order this week because it mentioned the full name of a deceased Chaos Computer Club hacker, known as Tron. A Berlin court ordered the closure of the site on Tuesday after it sided with the parents of the German hacker, who wanted to prevent the online encyclopedia from publishing the real name of their son. A final ruling is expected in two weeks' time.…&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:00:15 GMT</pubDate></item>

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</channel>
</rss>

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