Playpen #5 - Well Fed
generating rss
I've been meaning to get some rss feeds sorted out for my photographic sites for some time. There were some technicalities which I was wracking my brains to overcome, but in the end, it took a couple of dollars to pull my finger out - I found a great tutorial at CommunityMX about blog authoring, which gave me the final push. I also found the rss2.0 specification and feed validator for Atom and rss invaluable in getting a valid feed sorted out.
Where are my feeds?
- http://www.carolinemockett.com/photo/rss/ is the feed for my general photography
- http://www.rugbypix.com/rss/ is the feed for my rugby photography
feed reader interpretations
One thing I'd not really taken much notice of, as a consumer of other people's feeds, was how various feed readers actually present the information. But once I started authoring feeds, it's become a bit more obvious how each aggregator parses the xml file to display the feed. Some will only show 20 posts (no matter how many are actually in the feed), others keep a cached copy and don't seem to want to update the feed if the posts haven't changed but the layout and content has. All rather frustrating if you're trying to author a feed! See my blog post for more information.