RSS Feeds. RSS Feeds.Our servers provide support for RSS newsfeeds.
Any static page hosted on our servers can have an associated feed. The feed URL for a particular page is that page's original URL with .RSS appended, which must be in UPPERCASE.
For this page, as an example, the RSS feed is: http://www.tv-science.co.uk/services/support/rss.php.RSS. Any web user subscribing to this feed will be notified when this page changes.
To add an RSS feed for a page called /news/index.htm, add this HTML snippet to the page's <head> section:
<link rel=alternate type="application/rss+xml" href="/news/index.htm.RSS" title="Latest News.">
This alerts the browser to an RSS feed, allowing visitors to subscribe.
You can also include a link within the <body> with:
<a href="/news/index.htm.RSS" target="_blank"><img border=0 src="/RSS/rss_wave.png" height=16 width=16 alt='RSS Feed of the latest news'></a>
This produces: 
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Or alternatively:
<a href="/news/index.htm.RSS" target="_blank"><img border=0 src="/RSS/rss.png" height=14 width=36 alt=RSS></a>
which produces: 
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Any of the examples above can be added to other pages, your site's homepage, for example. Pages can contain links to more then one feed.
By default, the RSS feed updates every time the associated page is uploaded. Finer control is available by using a publication date; include this meta-tag containing a date and time in the <head> section of the page: <meta name="RSSpub" content="2010-03-10 00:00:00"> The feed will be updated only when the date changes, allowing you to correct a spelling error for example, without the feed updating itself. The time is optional, the date should be in YYYY-MM-DD format.
Other aspects of the RSS feed can be customised: <meta name="RSStit" content="This will be the title of the feed, rather than the default of the page's <title>."> <meta name="RSSdes" content="This will be the description of the feed, rather than the default of the description meta-tag."> Since these tags are read before the page is parsed by PHP or SSI they cannot include dynamic content. Use in the <head> section as above.
Support for feeds was added with Microsoft Internet Explorer V7 in November 2006 and Mozilla Firefox V2 in October 2006. Other aggregators and ticker software are available.
You can only add feeds for HTML or PHP files, not for pictures or multimedia.
We have a JavaScript™ news ticker/RSS feature, see the homepage. Either the ticker or the RSS feed may be used independantly. Get in touch if you wish to use this facility.
More about RSS feeds from Wikipedia.
Cut and paste:<link rel=alternate type='application/rss+xml' href="_PAGENAME_.RSS" title="_SHORT_TITLE_">
<meta name=RSSpub content="_DATE_">
<meta name=RSStit content="_TITLE_">
<meta name=RSSdes content="_DESCRIPTION_">
RSS feed for this page:
Hosting support feed: