You
will find many variations of the RSS logo across the internet -- different
shapes, different colors, with "RSS" or "XML" -- but they
all tell you the same thing: RSS technology powers the website with the publisher's
news. RSS gives people the way to be notified whenever new information is
posted on the website as selected by the website publisher, so they don 't
have to hunt across the site looking for updates, or for that matter, even
remember to check back at the website.
Site visitors
take
advantage of RSS by subscribing to feeds, better yet, by registering for email
alerts call "pings" to be rapidly notified by email when items are
posted.
Website
publishers use Enfeedia as their one-stop RSS feed publishing system because
of its ease of use— and feature set. If you publish a website, sign up
for an account and begin publishing your news directly on your site. Site
visitors will appreciate you providing a simple means for them to be kept
informed. It's the perfect way to establish customer loyalty!
RSS Icons used by Enfeedia
In addition to
the industry standard icon, Enfeedia supports a number of other icons (aka
buttons) that incorporate the basic icon along with a "descriptor extension"
to describe the specific function of that icon. Here's the complete list:
This industry
standard icon for RSS feeds indicates that the link is the RSS compliant
XML file. Clicking this icon will display the feed in RSS-capable browsers
and reveal the feed file URL in the browser address bar. That address
can be used with any RSS compliant "feed reader" to subscribe
to the feed with that service. Where otherwise ambiguous, this icon will
be followed by the feed name, e.g., MyNewsletter |
This icon
is the equivalent to the
standard. The descriptor extension is included for cases where the "RSS/XML"
descriptor is thought to be helpful to the site visitor and to be consistent
in style with other RSS icons that includes a word extension. |
This round
variation of the industry standard square icon, when clicked, causes the
feed to be read by a specific implementation-dependent feed reader. In
the case of Enfeedia, it invokes Enfeedia's "NewsPage" reader.
The Newspage not only displays the full feed but also provides a number
of tools for subscribing to the feed, setting up alerts for the feed,
and sharing the feed either as a complete feed or on an item by item basis,
etc.. Where otherwise ambiguous, this icon will be followed by the feed
name as described above. |
This icon
is the equivalent to .
The descriptor extension is included for cases where the "Read"
descriptor is thought to be helpful to the site visitor and to be consistent
in style with other RSS icons that includes a word extension. Where otherwise
ambiguous, this icon will be followed by the feed name as described above. |
This icon,
when clicked, opens a page that provides the means to register (or un-register)
for automatically generated email alerts that notify one when items are
posted on the feed. Where otherwise ambiguous, this icon will be followed
by the feed name as described above. |
This icon,
when clicked, opens a page that describes how to subscribe to the feed
using popular feed readers/aggregators. Where otherwise ambiguous, this
icon will be followed by the feed name as described above. |
Clicking this icon will produce a list of all feeds
associated with the website on which the icon is displayed, along with
the following icons for each feed in the list:
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