6 RSS tips, tutorials, techniques & resources
Mashing Up Feeds Using Yahoo Pipes
"Yahoo Pipes may just be in beta, but it's already a great tool for web publishers that wants to add a bit of more flair and life to their websites. It's in no way hard to mash up RSS feeds using Yahoo Pipes, and I'll walk you through the most basic way of using the service in this tutorial."
A Few RSS Icon Resources
"Looking for a good RSS icon for your site? You could go with the standard one, or use a variant that looks similar, without being so unrecognizable people won’t know it’s an RSS button."
The Dynamics of the Subscriber Impulse: When Do People Decide To Grab Your RSS Feed?
"Regardless of where and how they become exposed to your website and content, however, I believe that certain reactions will need to get triggered on the visitor’s mind before he arrives to the conclusion that he actually should click on that small RSS icon."
RSS: Best Design Practices And Icons
"In this article we give an overview of what RSS is and present best design and usability-practices for design and placement of RSS-buttons on a web site. We also showcase dozens of free RSS-icons and provide you with references to related tutorials and how-tos."
Tutorials Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, PHP and More
"You don’t have to re-invent the wheel all the time - you can use existing solutions, modify and improve them and publish them as well - just the way other people did it for you. In this post we’ve covered over 200 Ajax, CSS, Flash, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, RSS, XML as well as ASP, C++, Perl, Python and Java tutorials."
Web 2.0 for Designers
"There are six trends that characterize Web 2.0 for designers. In this introductory article we’ll summarize each of those trends and give brief examples."