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Stepping forward
Shoppers hunting for a shoe shop that prides itself on its fantastic levels of service need look no further than Young & Co's new website. [more...]
Anyone for Tennis?
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Simple but effective
Our single page web sites are highly cost effective and for many business represent a complete solution that is delivered rapidly to their specification. [more...]
Independant dancers
Glasgow-based Indepen-dance worked with us to create a new, accessible website that can be quickly and easily updated by their team. [more...]
Love pizza?
We enjoyed building a new website for Canadian pizza business Chris's Pizza. To find out more, read on! [more...]
Case study: Trees of Scotland
Find out more about the website we built for Trees of Scotland, an Ayrshire business that aims to recreate a natural Scottish woodland. [more...]
Perhaps you’ve seen the icons, often accompanied by text like, “Click here to subscribe,” or “RSS feed,” but you’ve never really been interested in what it means or what it does. Here at Staggerforth we’ve got our own RSS feed – just look at the top right hand corner of the page.
RSS feeds (RSS means Really Simple Syndication) are more popular than ever – in fact, it’s becoming strange to see a website without it. So what does it do?
A user’s perspective
Let’s say you’re something of a technology buff, and whenever a new gadget is released you want to know about it. An appropriate RSS feed makes this easy.
All you need is to find a (hopefully reputable and frequently updated) technology website, you can simply click on its RSS feed and, if you have suitable web browser software or a dedicated feed reader, it only takes a couple of clicks to subscribe.
From then on whenever they update their website with news of new gadgets or anything else, you will receive a summary and a link to the full story. It’s that simple.
Do I need to provide RSS?
The powerful and effective online publishing platforms used by Staggerforth for many of our clients’ websites make the generation of RSS feeds easy, but do you really need a news feed?
RSS and its counterpart technologies (such as ATOM) are fantastic for organisations that regularly make announcements or changes to their services and products, and there is an argument for saying that, given the ease with which it can be integrated, there is no reason not to provide a feed.
If you require more information about RSS and methods of integration then feel free to email us at enquires@staggerforth.co.uk.
