Now it's easier than ever to get free content for your Web site. RSS feeds are available from every About.com Web site including the Web Design/HTML site. And with some simple tools you can either read compilations of the About sites you like on newsreaders or place the content directly on your Web site with JavaScript or other programming tools.
Newsreaders
There are many online and offline newsreaders you can use to read RSS syndications. One of the ones I've used is Novobot. It's fairly easy to use, but adding new syndications is a little challenging. Another one I really like is Headline Viewer and NetNewsWire for Mac OS 10.2 (Jaguar).
The nice thing about using client-side newsreaders is you can download the news and then read it offline. But there are also a bunch of online news aggregators you can use to read RSS feeds. My favorite online aggregator is Meerkat. It's got a lot of technology related feeds already aggregated. News is Free is another good aggregator, it has thousands of sites linked. And one of the best known aggregators is Syndic8.
Web Developers
But newsreaders are only good for one person. If you want to use the syndicated newsfeeds on your own site, there are several options for you.
The easiest is to use JavaScript. RSS-to-JavaScript has created a JavaScript that will create a newsfeed you can use on your site. For example, to syndicate the Web Design/HTML site you would add the following JavaScript:
Note: The » symbol indicates a line wrap. Remove these characters and the newline.
<script language="javascript" src="http://convert.rss-to-javascript.com/?chan=1&num=5 »
&src=http%3A%2F%2F0.tqn.com%2F6%2Fg%2Fwebdesign%2Fblog%2Findex.xml">
</script>
<noscript>
Your browser does not support JavaScript.
<a title="RSS-to-JavaScript.com: Free RSS to JavaScript Converter"
href="http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/?p=151,381&chan=1&num=5 »
&src=http%3A%2F%2F0.tqn.com%2F6%2Fg%2Fwebdesign%2Fblog%2Findex.xml »
&as_html=1">Click to read the latest news</a>.
</noscript>
<a href="http://www.rss-to-javascript.com" target="_blank" title="RSS-to-JavaScript.com: Free RSS to JavaScript Converter"><img src="http://www.rss-to-javascript.com/images/rss-to-jss-small.gif" alt="RSS to JavaScript" border="0"></a>
This script would look like this.
If you're not interested in using JavaScript, there are many other tools out there to add RSS feeds to your site. Plus there are tools that work with C, Python, Perl, XSLT, and XML.
