Medieval Castles Information Now Available by RSS!

Good morning,

This is my first blog post of October and I hope it is interesting to you!

This weekend I set up an RSS / XML feed for my medieval website.

If you don't know what RSS / XML are don't worry it is really simple (although many Technical People like to make these things way complicated).

For you, adding the RSS / XML feed from my website means you will get the latest updates delivered straight to your My Yahoo! or My MSN account. Of course, it will also work with your Google Personalized Search page.

Whether you realize it or not Google, Yahoo, and MSN allow you to define your own page that becomes your "home" at their sites. You can easily customize the page to show you the information you are most interested in seeing. For example, if you want to get news about medieval jousting tournaments it is easy to tell these search engines to search for any news on medieval jousting tournaments and display the latest 5 results they find. RSS expands on this system to allow you to pick and choose feeds from websites such as www.medieval-castle-siege-weapons.com!

To get started and see what this is all about all you need to do is visit my medieval studies website.

Above the Navigation bar on the left side of the screen you will see a box that looks like the image over there on the left.
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If you prefer Yahoo click on the add to My YAHOO! button.
If you prefer MSN click on the MY MSN + button

And if you want to know more about an RSS Feed, such as "why would I use an RSS feed?" click on the link that says "What's an RSS feed?".

I recommend adding the feed to either Yahoo or MSN even if you don't have any idea at this point what it does. Why? First, doing so is not going to hurt anything so you have no worries there and second, by adding the feed to Yahoo or MSN you will understand exactly what an RSS Feed is and why they are great for you!

Once you see how easy and powerful RSS feeds are you may want to tell your family and friends about them and show them how to set up their own feeds at Yahoo or MSN.


Have a great day!

Garfield Benjamin