What is an RSS Feed and

what do I do with it?

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary, sometimes called Real Simple Syndication. It is a method of getting the word out about your website by creating what is essentially a “What’s New” list of stuff you have updated. This is called an RSS feed. Someone then uses something called a News Aggregator to “subscribe” to that feed. The aggregator service tells them every time that site is updated, kind of like a news ticker on a TV screen.

When you click on one of our  "Subscribe"  links (or the little orange square anywhere on our site) you will be taken to a page that looks similar to this:

Click this link when you're on this page

At the top of this screen you'll see this:

When you click on the "Subscribe Now" button, you will get a popup menu to "bookmark" this Live Feed the same way you bookmark any other website.  I recommend that you create a new folder called RSS Feeds and use that to bookmark all the RSS Feeds you decide to subscribe to, which will help to keep them organized and easy to find.

If you're not familiar with the many options available for viewing RSS feeds, then your easiest choice, once you have clicked on our subscribe link, is to click on the link for  "View Feed XML" (circled in red above).

You'll then go to a screen that looks similar to this: