This script was created by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs to assist in the evaluation of RSS feeds by department webmasters. Feel free to use this script to build an RSS feed for your site to determine the viability/usability of RSS on your site before purchasing any software.
Feed Title
The title provides a name for your RSS Feed, for the ORSP we used the ResearchHighlights news letter as the source of our articles and therefore called our feed “ResearchHighlights”
Feed Link
The link provides your feed a way to redirect people to your website for more information. An example would be “http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/research/”
Feed Image
(optional)
The image attribute provides a way for you to specify a logo or thumbnail view of your feed for RSS readers that support it. This should be an http link to an image.
Feed Description
The description should tell people what they can expect from your feed. This should be a summary of the vision of the feed and not a summary of its contents. Tell the user what kind of things your feed has, is, and will cover rather than a summary of the articles you are including.
Articles
Add articles/items to your RSS feed by clicking the plus button to the left. You can reorder and remove them as necessary using the buttons to the right of each.
RSS Code
Copy the contents of the box below and paste it into a text file. Save that text file as the name of your feed and add “.rss” as the file extension. Upload that file to your webserver and use the HTML code example below to include it as your RSS feed in your website.
HTML Code
Copy the contents of the box below and paste it into your website's main page head tag. Replace "your_rss_feed_file.rss" with the name you used for your RSS file you uploaded to your site.
