RSS Feeds Have Revolutionized the InternetWritten by Gunnar Berglund
RSS feeds have revolutionized Internet for one very good reason: they have provided and end to Spam. With RSS feeds, you can say good-bye to mass emails and distributions that do not meet your news needs and clog up your mailbox and hard drive. RSS technology provides a way to sort through vast amount of information available via Internet and to select only that information that will best suit your needs. RSS technology is easy to use and available to general public, and assists web masters and designers every day in their attempts to fine tune website to specifications of goal audience. RSS feeds provide a simple approach to perplexing problem of Spam, and are accessible at your fingertips. An RSS editor or reader reads RSS feeds. An RSS feed is a small package of information that you can use to select larger article or content. RSS feeds contain title of article, and a synopsis of what article is about. The RSS feed significantly cuts down on time you spend sorting through articles to pick ones that meet your specific needs. An RSS feed also sometimes contains a snippet of actual article, which will allow you to understand feel and style of article. An RSS editor or reader can sort RSS feeds. This technology can be fine tuned to select RSS feeds for your perusal You can select based on title, content, or based on origin of article. You can subscribe to certain news groups or can keep your RSS feeds more generalized.
| | Content Management Systems and building your eBizWritten by Elray Jones
Content Management Systems and building your eBizAs a retired Software Engineer(big word for under paid corporation slave). I got tired of setting around to house telling my cat to stop doing things cats do. I started a side business repairing computers. But I messed call of coding and creating things... that's what I like best about design be it software or graphics. When I worked at (Big unnamed corporation, because of on going law suit) we used things like CASE Tools, UML, COBRA, UniCenter and other things that will make you pull your hair out. When i started to look for a manageable platform to work with dynamic websites i have never heard of Opensource CMS's I was looking into .NET, then one day while poking around with Cpanel at my host i found PhpNuke...etc...and rest is history. Most Content Management Systems, are a bit adhoc in there design, but you can work around that. Fast deployment of sites is what i find Content Management Systems, useful for. The learning curve for a neophyte is quite high, but design is key. After your curve goes down you can deploy a site in a day! Some Content Management Systems, CMS for short, can cost thousands of dollars. While others are opensource. I am focusing here on opensource CMS called CPGNuke DragonFly. There are many more opensource CMS's that you can test drive at http://www.opensourcecms.com .
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