RSS with Firefox

I guess alot of people haven’t really bothered about RSS or ATOM Feeds on websites, and I didn’t either – until today.

I got interesting of learning who to make an dynamic RSS feed through asp.net and I started to read all about it. I finally made an RSS Feed from a MSSQL database to an XML file and posted it on one of my works websites. But that’s not what I’m going to talk about today, I just want to share how much I started liking RSS Feeds.

This little Icon appears everywhere on the web and it’s a great feature, you will always stay updated on all your favorite websites. It does sound a bit too much, and a bit fanatic to be updated on ALL your favorite sites but with the right tools it’s easy to separate the relevant info from the irrelevant.

Have you never used an RSS Feed,
here comes a quick guide. Checkout for the RSS Icon, klick it. The RSS should appear in order of posts with the recent updates from the website. Click the subscribe button at the top and add it to your favourites. That’s it! The really cool feature is that it will update automaticly and you will always get the latest info. To check it out you can view my RSS feed.

Handle your RSS Feeds with Firefox add-ons.
After a while when you have added alot of RSS feeds it will get a bit messy in your favorites. This is where a good add-on comes in handy. There are some add-ons for FireFox on their add-on page for RSS feeds and I have tried a bunch of them.

My favorite is Sage, a good stable add-on. It’s easy to import your RSS-map. It’s easy to see when your RSS subsriptions is updated and to see all the posts in the RSS Feed. You can also change the apperance on the RSS to your custom style (CSS) or download any of the skins from Sage’s website.

Download Sage:
Sage website
Mozilla FireFox add-ons site

Finally
Well that’s it for me, I hope this will help you a bit in the RSS jungle and gets your web experience alot easier.
A Howto is coming up on creating RSS Feeds for your website in asp.net C#, stay tuned :D