What is RSS?

• RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication
• RSS allows you to syndicate your site content
• RSS is a selected list of defined items on a site
• RSS defines an easy way to share and view headlines and content, links and short descriptions of these
• RSS files can be automatically updated
• RSS allows personalized views for different sites
• RSS is written in XML
• RSS allows fast browsing for news and updates.

Why Use RSS?

RSS was designed to show selected data.

Without RSS, users will have to check the site daily to check for new updates. This may be too time-consuming for many users. With an RSS feed (RSS is often called a News Feed or RSS Feed) they can check your site faster using an RSS aggregator (a site or program that gathers and sorts out several RSS feeds).

Since RSS data is small and fast-loading, it can easily be used with services like cell phones or PDA's.

Web-rings with similar information can easily share data on their sites to make them better and more useful.

bmwcarclubforum.co.uk: RSS (XML) Feeds

• We offer rss/xml feeds for anyone to parse, for use on their website.
• These feeds will give the lastest 10 posts for the entire forum or for a particular forum (e.g. the Club Events Forum)
• We currently use RSS 2.0 for our feeds.

RSS Readers / Aggregators

There are numerous RSS readers available out there and for all types of operating systems.
We only list a few here, but if you search the web then you will numerous more:

More RSS Help / FAQ

• RSS 2.0
• RSS on Wkiipedia
• ASP RSS FAQ