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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Week 7 - Add a Feed to Your Blog

The only way to really appreciate RSS feeds is to use them. So, I will explain here how to add one to your blog. Since we all have to visit our blogs each week, it will be one-stop-shopping for you to experience how an RSS feed works.
  1. Find a website with an RSS feed (look for the feed logo located at the top center of this post) to "pull" a feed from. Choose a site that has information that interests you. "Copy" the URL of the RSS feed page.
  2. Sign into your blog and click into "Design" mode.
  3. Click on any "Gadget" area you see. You will get a list of options of gadgets you can add to customize your blog.
  4. Scroll down the list of gadgets to find "FEED." Click on it.
  5. Paste the URL of the website of your chosen feed.
Voila! You should be in business with your new RSS feed.
PS -I have experienced some errors pasting some RSS URLs into the URL. I have no fix but to find another URL of another website that works. Sorry...I'm still not a guru in Blogger.
Now...go get a feed! (And...let me know how it works.)



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