RSS Introduction
You need either a static file or script serving the feed in the correct format. For example open notepad, copy the following and save this as rss.xml
Quote:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>W3Schools Home Page</title>
<link>http://www.w3schools.com</link>
<description>Free web building tutorials</description>
<item>
<title>RSS Tutorial</title>
<link>http://www.w3schools.com/rss</link>
<description>New RSS tutorial on W3Schools</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>XML Tutorial</title>
<link>http://www.w3schools.com/xml</link>
<description>New XML tutorial on W3Schools</description>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
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Now you can point your web browser or RSS reader at it. This is just a static file and can be very cumbersome to maintain since it would have to be manually edited. Typically you will only use RSS on a site with a lot of new content daily, for example a news site. Manually editing is out of the question for such sites and they are automagically generated using a script however that requires you either A)know programming if it's custom site ot B)are using pre-installed software like a CMS that supports RSS.
Also note to make people aware of the feed you either going to link to it on your pages either through a visible link, link in the head tag or both.