- Paperback: 344 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (7 Jun 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321426223
- ISBN-13: 978-0321426222
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 17.9 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,608,698 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Whether you want to create your own RSS feeds or just would like to locate and add them to your Web site, this is the book for you. In the Secrets of RSS, author Steve Holzner provides real-world guidance and advice to introduce you everything you need to know about effectively implementing and using RSS:
• How to connect to RSS feed, handle them, and track down what you want
• The difference between RSS and blogs, and how nearly every major RSS reader works
• How to design an RSS feed, what you'll find in RSS feeds, and formats and links
• Create your own first RSS feed from scratch:and subscribe to it
• Putting RSS to work in the real-world
• The free tools and software available to help you create RSS files
• Finding, subscribing to, and creating podcasts
• Spreading the word about your RSS feed
• RSS best practices
• And more!
• How to connect to RSS feed, handle them, and track down what you want
• The difference between RSS and blogs, and how nearly every major RSS reader works
• How to design an RSS feed, what you'll find in RSS feeds, and formats and links
• Create your own first RSS feed from scratch:and subscribe to it
• Putting RSS to work in the real-world
• The free tools and software available to help you create RSS files
• Finding, subscribing to, and creating podcasts
• Spreading the word about your RSS feed
• RSS best practices
• And more!
From the Back Cover
Whether you want to create your own RSS feeds or just would like to locate and add them to your Web site, this is the book for you. In the Secrets of RSS, author Steve Holzner provides real-world guidance and advice to introduce you everything you need to know about effectively implementing and using RSS:
• How to connect to RSS feed, handle them, and track down what you want
• The difference between RSS and blogs, and how nearly every major RSS reader works
• How to design an RSS feed, what you'll find in RSS feeds, and formats and links
• Create your own first RSS feed from scratch:and subscribe to it
• Putting RSS to work in the real-world
• The free tools and software available to help you create RSS files
• Finding, subscribing to, and creating podcasts
• Spreading the word about your RSS feed
• RSS best practices
• And more!
• How to connect to RSS feed, handle them, and track down what you want
• The difference between RSS and blogs, and how nearly every major RSS reader works
• How to design an RSS feed, what you'll find in RSS feeds, and formats and links
• Create your own first RSS feed from scratch:and subscribe to it
• Putting RSS to work in the real-world
• The free tools and software available to help you create RSS files
• Finding, subscribing to, and creating podcasts
• Spreading the word about your RSS feed
• RSS best practices
• And more!
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Format:Paperback
As a technical author (ie. a non-programmer) who has had to also look after web content I have always found Peach Pit Press's series of quick start guides a reliable starting point for new topics (JavaScript/CSS/DHMTL/XML).
This is the first time they have failed. Strip out the page after page of reviews of software tools and your left with very little but a specification of the feed fields. ?Where are the secrets of RSS?
You could argue that's obvious because there is actually very little to writing a feed once you know what the tags are. But there's a whole arena of things you can do to generate, process and use feeds and its pretty much all missed. Yes it means stepping into PHP or JavaScript but that's what I was after.
My site now both provides feeds for anyone to use and uses the same feed files to display as content within the sites own pages, meaning I'm only updating one thing for multiple outputs. All learned without help from this book.
This is the first time they have failed. Strip out the page after page of reviews of software tools and your left with very little but a specification of the feed fields. ?Where are the secrets of RSS?
You could argue that's obvious because there is actually very little to writing a feed once you know what the tags are. But there's a whole arena of things you can do to generate, process and use feeds and its pretty much all missed. Yes it means stepping into PHP or JavaScript but that's what I was after.
My site now both provides feeds for anyone to use and uses the same feed files to display as content within the sites own pages, meaning I'm only updating one thing for multiple outputs. All learned without help from this book.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Excellent overview and how-to on RSS
9 Oct 2007
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
RSS is interesting on a number of levels. As a consumer of information, RSS lets you get massive amounts of information in a convenient manner, allowing you to quickly hone in on what you want to read. As a distributor of information (i.e., a blogger or website owner), RSS lets you distribute information easily which may increase readership of your efforts.
But what do you really have to know about RSS as a consumer or distributor of information? Well, depending on your level of curiousity, it may be a lot or a little.
And to your rescue comes Steven Holzner. Holzner has written a ton - the back cover says 95 - of books of technical subjects. I've read many of them and haven't found a bad one yet. This is no exception.
Holzner covers just about every aspect of RSS, from defining and explaining what it is to RSS readers to creating feeds manually. It's really quite thorough and Holzner has a gift for making technology understandable.
Highly recommended for anyone seeking an introductory to medium grounding in RSS.
Jerry
But what do you really have to know about RSS as a consumer or distributor of information? Well, depending on your level of curiousity, it may be a lot or a little.
And to your rescue comes Steven Holzner. Holzner has written a ton - the back cover says 95 - of books of technical subjects. I've read many of them and haven't found a bad one yet. This is no exception.
Holzner covers just about every aspect of RSS, from defining and explaining what it is to RSS readers to creating feeds manually. It's really quite thorough and Holzner has a gift for making technology understandable.
Highly recommended for anyone seeking an introductory to medium grounding in RSS.
Jerry
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Well-written Look to RSS
25 Aug 2006
Format:Paperback
Steven Holzner does a wonderful job of starting with the very basics of RSS and moving onto more advanced topics towards the end of the book. He covers RSS Feeds, RSS Readers, Blogging with RSS, Podcasting, Publicizing your feeds, RSS Best Practices, and a few other topics.
The book is well-written and easy to read, and well-designed (something I've found with all of Peachpit's titles. While most folks won't be interested in the details of creating a feed by hand, or the subtle differences between versions of the RSS standard, these tidbits ensure the book is a complete treatment of the subject.
For $15 (here on Amazon) you're not going to find a better look at RSS.
The book is well-written and easy to read, and well-designed (something I've found with all of Peachpit's titles. While most folks won't be interested in the details of creating a feed by hand, or the subtle differences between versions of the RSS standard, these tidbits ensure the book is a complete treatment of the subject.
For $15 (here on Amazon) you're not going to find a better look at RSS.
RSS feeds are so important to me
24 April 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book has the information inside to assist me in creating some great RSS feeds for my viewers on my page. The book is in A1 perfect condition and arrived quicker that I expected.
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