RSS Feeds

The Gilberd School is now providing RSS Feeds for its news and other areas of the site such as the Gilberd.com Ticker. Through these feeds, you can be notified when new content has been published within the areas of Gilberd.com, and events at the Gilberd School that you are interested in.

As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts on the feeds, and please let us know if anything seems unusual or out of place as you use them.

• Gilberd.com News Feed
• Gilberd.com Ticker Feed

What Is RSS?

RSS (Really Simple Syndication, or RDF Site Summary, or Rich Site Summary, depending on who you believe) provides a convenient way to syndicate information from a variety of sources, including news stories, updates to a web site or even source code check-ins for a development project. Regardless of the purpose for which the RSS file is being used, by watching this XML file, you can quickly and easily see whenever an update has occurred. Of course, viewing the RSS feed in Microsoft Internet Explorer and hitting F5 every few minutes is not the most efficient use of your time, so most people take advantage of some form of client software to read and monitor RSS feeds.

There are many different RSS clients available, but here are a selected few that we tested our feeds with and that you may find useful:

• AmphetaDesk,
    £free (Open Source), Windows, Linux, Mac
   
• SharpReader
    £free, requires Microsoft Windows .NET Framework
   
• FeedReader
    £free (GPL), Windows '95 or newer
   
• NewsGator
     $29 (Commercial), Microsoft Windows only, runs in Microsoft Outlook
   
• RSS Bandit, which you can build yourself based on this article in the MSDN Library.

Whenever you see this (or sometimes ) it should link to an RSS feed that you can subscribe to via your RSS client. This icon appears on every page of the Gilberd.com website.

Last Site Updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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