There are several tools for publishing RSS feeds widely available on the Internet, with a range of prices from free on up. RSS is probably the most powerful marketing tool emerging in internet publishing today. This opens up an entire new way to drive traffic to your site. Imagine the traffic you would generate by getting a story published on one of those news portals. They collect RSS feeds from across the internet and then publish the relevant ones on their site. This is how tools like Yahoo or Google News work.
RSS also solves another problem by allowing content to be syndicated (or republished) on other websites. Its permission marketing done right, and with no SPAM filter headaches. It also solves the SPAM problem, because your market has already agreed to be targeted. That means its a great way to communicate with a market that has already defined itself as interested in your content by having taken the first step of subscribing to the feed. It solves the What’s New problem for websites by allowing content consumers to subscribe to content that they find relevant.
RSS allows you to see updated content in news aggregators or web browsers (new ones have integrated this feature). I even have my own RSS feed for articles that I publish on my personal blog, Andy Carvin’s Waste of Bandwidth. Similarly, the Digital Divide Network publishes RSS feeds for our news headlines, events listings and other content on our website. Each RSS feed contains a summary of the most recent news stories posted. They also publish RSS feeds for each of these subjects. For example, Yahoo News publishes news related to world headlines, national news, sports, etc, which you can read by going to the Yahoo website. If a website publishes an RSS page, commonly known as an RSS “feed,” this feed will contain summaries of all the recent articles posted on that site. RSS is written in the Internet coding language known as XML, which is why you see RSS buttons labeled that way. Bloggers use it to distribute summaries of their blog entries as well. It’s commonly used for distributing headlines on news websites. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a technical format that allows online publishers to share and distribute their content to other websites or individual Internet users. What’s this all about? It’s an RSS feed, and it’s changing the way people access the Internet. When you click on the button, all you see is some jumbled text and computer code. When you have done this, your outline should look similar to the image below but obviously a bit more dressed up since mine is absolutely basic.You may have noticed recently that many of websites now contain little graphical buttons with the word XML on them. To do this, go down to the line below your last point and type a closing unordered list tag. Once you have created all your bullet points, you are ready to end your outline. To return to a larger bullet point, go to the next line and only type an open link tag then your text, followed by a closing link tag. Then insert your text and right after type a closing link tag immediately followed by a closing unordered list tag. Then type an open unordered list tag followed directly by an open link tag. Simply go down to the line below the general point you would like to expand upon. I know this may seem complicated, but I promise it’s not. If you want to create smaller bullets to represent more specific points, you will need to create an unordered list inside of an unordered list. To do so, on the line below your title type an open unordered list tag.Įach individual bullet point will require you to type an open link tag then your text followed by a closed link tag. Next, you will need to start your unordered list. This just means that under the first body tag you will need to type you opening p tag, then your title and then at the end of your title type your closing p tag. Once you have done that, it is time to delve into the code. If you are already working on a project, open that up instead. It only takes a couple of easy steps, which I will guide you through.įirst and foremost, open up a blank HTML document in Dreamweaver (You can do this by going to File > New and then selecting HTML) If this phrase doesn’t sound familiar, don’t fret. The easiest way to go about creating your outline is by simply creating an unordered list. However now that I have figured it out, I want to assist those of you who find yourselves in the same predicament I was previously in.
Recently, I had to create a bulleted outline for a project using Adobe Dreamweaver, but I was unaware how to do so.