RSS Feeds

We love 'em. We gotta have 'em. They just look so professional on our site and we have to do nothing more than copy and paste a code. OMG, I'm so freaking in love with some RSS Feeds!

CF WEBSITE
I wrote down a list of a content ideas for the CF website a while ago (my boyfriend from up north thinks 'a while ago' is an animal similar to a wild dingo *rolls eyes*) and one content idea was to include news articles. With a stroke of genius I decided an RSS Feed from a Cystic Fibrosis website would suffice. It would also give me giblets for those wonda-ful crawlers to munch on and spit out at you when you go googling.

RSS FEEDS
So how do you get an RSS Feed to feed it's wonderful giblets to your website? OMG, you're gonna freak out at how easy it is! Alls you gots to do is go to this website:

http://www.rss-info.com/en_rssinclude-simple.html

Next you gotta type in the address from which you want the feed to come from. I went to google.com, searched for "Cystic Fibrosis RSS Feed" and I chose this website:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/rss/cystic_fibrosis.xml

So what I did was copy this website's address and paste it into the box labled: RSS URL.

Next you type in the hex codes for the colors you want to use as the background, border and cell background. You can also leave these hex codes as the default and you'll get a really professional looking feed box too. I opted to change mine to match the color scheme of my CF Website.

Afterwards you then decide if you want JavaScript coding, IFrame coding or PHP Coding. Because the page I'm building is in essence nothing more than div tags & containers with javascript I opted to use the JavaScript coding so everything kinda matched. You can use whichever, altough I'm not certain what IFrame is exactly, but I'm sure I'll come across it in my daily adventures with Web Design.

Next you click Create HTML and when the page loads scroll down. Under the Create HTML button you'll now see a box with coding in it. Copy the code. Now just paste the code into the source code of your website wherever you need it to be. How freaking cool is that, right?

Here's a snapshot of what my CF website looks like so far with the RSS feed in it. Remember...it's a work in progress.