29 August 2004
What is RSS? (thx to AspRss.com)
Over its lifetime RSS has stood for many different things - Rich Site Summary, ReallySimple Syndication and RDF Site Summary among others. Nowadays it is generally considereda name rather than an acronym.
Simply put, an RSS file is a file on your web site that tells other web sites which of your pages are interesting.
In the ASPRSS world there are two kinds of web site:
• Publishers that have pages on their web site that they would like others link to, and
• Directories that store links to web sites, and allow their readers to search for topics of interest.
Yahoo is a famous example of a Directory, while CNN is a Publisher.
Publishers can implement the ASPRSS system by placing an RSS.xml or RSS.asp file on their web site. We supply ASP source code to help you create this file. We can then submit your resources to directory sites, or you can do it yourself.
[More: What exactly is in the RSS file?]
