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Usage

RSS Item Editor

Channel Main Tab

Channel Optionals Tab

Upload Tab

Ping Tab

Tools - HTML Preview

Tools - XML Preview

Tools - Options

System Requirements

Registration

Usage

Step 1 - Fill in necessary information about your website

Insert root URL and click Autocomplete and the title of your RSS feed and description will be filled with your web site's information in <TITLE> tag and META tag "description". All other fields in Channel tab are optional.

Step 2 - Enter RSS feed item URL, title and description as many as you need and save your generated RSS file.

You don't need to use Optional section, this only for specific websites. However you can see what's in Optional bar and may be find something useful for your website.

RSS Channel Writer

Step 3 - Upload to server and insert the following meta tag into all pages of your website in <head> tag:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="/rss.xml" />

Where title is your RSS title and "rss.xml" is your RSS file name. You should change it with the file name that you saved.

RSS Channel Writer - Upload Tab

Step 4 - Ping to RSS servers

RSS Channel Writer - Ping Tab

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RSS Item Editor

Double click to insert RSS item's URL, then title and click button under "Description" to edit short description of the item.

RSS Channel Writer

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor with HTML source code view will help you edit the description very easy. You can save your time by clicking "Autocomplete" after you have entered URL of item and the "Title" field will be filled from "Title" tag of the item and "Description" will be filled from "description" meta tag.

RSS Channel Writer - WYSIWYG editor

Optional field contains some optional attributes that use some specific website:

RSS Channel Writer - Optional

  • Publication Date - The publication date for the item in the channel.
  • Author - Email address of the author of the item. For newspapers and magazines syndicating via RSS, the author is the person who wrote the article that the <item> describes. For collaborative weblogs, the author of the item might be different from the managing editor or webmaster.
  • Comments - URL of a page for comments relating to the item.
  • Category
    • Category - Includes the item in one or more categories.
    • Domain - Optional attribute that identifies a categorization taxonomy.
  • Enclosure - Describes a media object that is attached to the item. It has three required attributes:
    • URL - says where the enclosure is located;
    • Length - says how big it is in bytes;
    • Type - says what its type is, a standard MIME type.
  • Guid
    • Guid - A string that uniquely identifies the item. Guid stands for globally unique identifier. When present, an aggregator may choose to use this string to determine if an item is new. There are no rules for the syntax of a guid. Aggregators must view them as a string. It's up to the source of the feed to establish the uniqueness of the string. Example:
      http://some.server.com/weblogItem3207
    • Check if it is a permalink - If the guid element has an attribute named isPermaLink with a value of true, the reader may assume that it is a permalink to the item, that is, a URL that can be opened in a Web browser, that points to the full item described by the <item> element. An example:
      http://inessential.com/2002/09/01.php#a2
  • Source - The RSS channel that the item came from. The purpose of this element is to propagate credit for links, to publicize the sources of news items. It can be used in the Post command of an aggregator. It should be generated automatically when forwarding an item from an aggregator to a weblog authoring tool.
    • Source - Its value is the name of the RSS channel that the item came from, derived from its Title.
    • URL - link to the XMLization of the source.
      Example: 
      Source: Tomalak's Realm
      URL: http://www.tomalak.org/links2.xml

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Channel Main Tab

Channel tab is provided to for filling main information that is necessary to create an RSS feed. All fields in channel main tab are mandatory. In Channel tab you can find following fields and items:

RSS Channel Writer

Root URL

Your web site's URL corresponding to the channel;

Title

Title of your RSS feed, it should be the same as the title of your web site;

Description

RSS feed's description, it can be taken from your web site's meta tag "description";

Autocomplete button

Autocomplete button - you can just enter web site's root URL and click "Autocomplete" and the fields "Title" and "Description" will be automatically filled from web site's "Title" tag and "description" meta tag.

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Channel Optionals Tab

You can switch to Channel Optional Tab by clicking "Show Optionals" button. Optional items and fields are not mandatory to fill but in some cases information in those fields are very useful. In Optionals tab you can find following fields and items:

RSS Channel Writer - Channel Optionals Tab

Editor, Editor's E-mail

Name and Email address for person responsible for editorial content;

Webmaster, webmaster's E-mail

Name and Email address for person responsible for technical issues relating to channel;

Copyright

Copyright notice for content in the channel. Example: 

Copyright 2007, Emergency Soft

Publication Date

The publication date for the content in the channel;

Last Build Date

The last time the content of the channel changed;

Language

The language the channel is written in. This allows aggregators to group all language sites on a single page;

Skip Hours

A hint for aggregators telling them which hours they can skip whose value is a number between 0 and 23, representing a time in GMT, when aggregators, if they support the feature, may not read the channel on hours listed in the Skip Hours. The hour beginning at midnight is hour zero.

Skip Days

A hint for aggregators telling them which days they can skip whose value is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Aggregators may not read the channel during days listed in the Skip Days.

Time to live

It stands for time to live. It's a number of minutes that indicates how long a channel can be cached before refreshing from the source.

Rating

The PICS rating for the channel.

Category

Specify one or more categories that the channel belongs to. It has one optional attribute, domain, that identifies a categorization taxonomy.

RSS Channel Writer - Channel Optionals Tab - Category

Cloud

Cloud specifies a web service that supports the rssCloud interface which can be implemented in HTTP-POST, XML-RPC or SOAP 1.1.

Its purpose is to allow processes to register with a cloud to be notified of updates to the channel, implementing a lightweight publish-subscribe protocol for RSS feeds. Example:

RSS Channel Writer - Channel Optional Tab - Cloud

Domain: rpc.sys.com
Port: 80
Path: /RPC2
Register Procedure: myCloud.rssPleaseNotify
Protocol: ml-rpc

In this example, to request notification on the channel it appears in, you would send an XML-RPC message to rpc.sys.com on port 80, with a path of /RPC2. The procedure to call is myCloud.rssPleaseNotify.

Image

Specifies a GIF, JPEG or PNG image that can be displayed with the channel. This is an optional sub-element, which contains three required and three optional sub-elements.

RSS Channel Writer - Channel Optionals Tab - Image

URL is the URL of a GIF, JPEG or PNG image that represents the channel.

Press "Autocomplete" to automoatically fill all the fields in Image sub-element or you can fill in information manually.

Title describes the image, it's used in the ALT attribute of the HTML <img> tag when the channel is rendered in HTML.

Link is the URL of the site, when the channel is rendered, the image is a link to the site. Note, in practice the image Title and Link should have the same value as the channel's Title and Link.

Optional elements include Width and Height, numbers, indicating the width and height of the image in pixels. Description contains text that is included in the "TITLE" attribute of the link formed around the image in the HTML rendering.

Maximum value for width is 144, default value is 88.

Maximum value for height is 400, default value is 31.

Text Input

Specifies a text input box that can be displayed with the channel which contains four required sub-elements.

RSS Channel Writer - Channel Optionals Tab - Text Input

Title -- The label of the Submit button in the text input area.

Description -- Explains the text input area.

Name -- The name of the text object in the text input area.

Link -- The URL of the CGI script that processes text input requests.

The purpose of the Text Input element is something of a mystery. You can use it to specify a search engine box. Or to allow a reader to provide feedback. Most aggregators ignore it.

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Upload Tab

Here you can upload your generated RSS file. Press the "Add FTP Connection" button to customize FTP connection of your site.

Enter name of your connection, host, user name, password and remote directory where the generated RSS file will be uploaded.

Then choose a connection and press "Upload".

RSS Channel Writer - Upload Tab

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Ping Tab

There are a lot of RSS servers that accept your RSS feed to publish in their servers and bring you more traffic. With this tool you can automatically notify these servers about your RSS feed. Enter your RSS URL and just click "Ping" and more than 50 RSS servers will be informed about your RSS feed. You'll see the result of pinging in "Response" section. In some cases some servers return errors because of their internal problems. But these are usually temporary problems. Just ping to these servers once again after some minutes and don't forget to deselect the servers that were successfully pinged, avoid successful pinging the same (unchanged) RSS to the same RSS server more than one time.

RSS Channel Writer - Ping Tab

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Tools - HTML Preview

Here you can see how your RSS feed will be displayed in browsers.

RSS Channel Writer - HTML Preview

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Tools - XML Preview

Here you can see how your RSS feed looks like in XML format. In other words XML source code of RSS file.

RSS Channel Writer - XML Preview

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Tools - Options

Here you can select Time Zone that is used by your website and language of the program.

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System Requirements

RSS Channel Writer requires Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista and Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. You can download Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (size: 22.4 MB) for free from Microsoft's official website.

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Registration

Without RSS Channel Writer registration you can only save 3 items in your RSS feed and ping to 3 RSS servers. Register your copy to get full access to the program features. You need a registration key to register your copy. Get a registration key here: Buy Now!

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