More on RSS feeds

The education continues. My preference would be to have rss feeds that patrons can sign up for that would have updated information about programming, new books and eventually information regarding the future of the library. An rss feed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format) that a patron can subscribe to, that would send the newest info to the patron's PC seems like the best way to get updated information out there.

I have one page....really a test page as I have never done this before. I was looking for an add on piece of software that I could use with Dreamweaver and that just seemed too complicated. I need something relatively straight forward as a I tend to do this kind of work at the reference desk. So I used the tutorial on this page, did it by hand, and it wasn't all that difficult. What's not clear to me is how to configure it so when there is new information, that patron will know...i.e. adding time and date stamps and "forcing" an update.

Any way...the page is http://www.suffield-library.org/rssfeedtest.xml. If you want to look at it, it needs to be run through a rss newsfeed aggregator. I used NewsGator...which is an online free service. Not particular attractive but for testing purposes, it'll do.

The education continues.....