Product name: RSS Feed

Product reference number

387

Marketing Classification

Communication

System Main Classification

Publications

System Sub Classification

Website

General introduction

RSS feed is a format for delivering updates on frequently changing web content. It solves the problem for visitors who regularly use your website. It allows them to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from your company website. A RSS document, which is called a feed, is basically just a small .xml page that contains a list of articles, news and other parts of website content. This page can be read by a RSS Reader installed on your customer's computer.

A RSS feed saves your customers' time and helps them in getting information they want right after it is published. It is also a great way to promote your website and its content without the need to advertise or create complicated content sharing partnerships.

Key benefits

  • Provides the latest information about your business to your employees, clients or partners.
  • Attracts more visitors to your website or Intranet.
  • Valuable, updated, and relevant news resource for your website visitors.
  • A RSS feed can be used for every content section that uses the ContentForces Content Editor.
  • A RSS document contains summarized text from content webpages, metadata, publishing data and authorship.

Website visitor perspective

  • Internet users add a RSS feed to their RSS iewers. RSS viewers automatically check a RSS feed and informs people about the latest information from your website. Specific company information from a RSS feed could also be shown on TV screens or LCD panels. In this situation a reader for TV screens/LCD panels is required.

Website manager perspective

  • Updating a RSS feed is an automatic process. When a website manager adds pages and publishes them, the RSS file is updated with information about them.
  • A list of directory folder/s for a RSS feed and the number of page headers that a RSS feed should contain is fully configurable by ContentForces.

Features

  • Only the addition and publish of a new article or a news page in a RSS section triggers the updating of a RSS feed; updating the content or name does not.

Required components

  • Homepage
  • Subpage
  • News

Related components

  • Homepage
  • Subpage
  • News
  • News archive
  • News scroller

Status

ready for delivery