RSS feeds explained

By subscribing to our RSS feed you can automatically be kept up to date with the latest content on our site.

What are News Feeds? (watch the video below)

News feeds allow you to see when websites have added new content. You can get the latest content added to our website in one place, as soon as its published, without having to visit the websites you have taken the feed from. Feeds are also known as RSS, the feeds themselves are just web pages, designed to be read by computers rather than people.

How to start using feeds?

In general, the first thing you need is a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks the feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications.

Browser-based news readers let you catch up with your RSS feed subscriptions from any computer, whereas downloadable applications let you store them on your main computer, in the same way that you either download your e-mail using Outlook, or keep it on a web-based service like Hotmail.

• Windows FeedReaderNewz CrawlerFeedDemonAwasu
• Mac OS X NewsfireNetNewsWire
• WebGoogleBloglines FeedZilla NewsGator My Yahoo!
• Browser Mozilla Firefox
• Other News Readers (GOOGLE)

Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want it to receive, look for the orange RSS button next to or below the content on our website. If you click on the RSS button you can subscribe to the feed in various ways, including by dragging the URL of the feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader.

Some browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Safari, automatically check for feeds for you when you visit a website, and display an icon in the browser's address bar when they find one. This can make subscribing to feeds much easier. For more details on these, please check their websites.

Note: Start in Salford is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

Using Start in Salford RSS feeds on your site

If you run your own website, you can display the latest content from other websites on your own site using RSS. We encourage the use of Start in Salford feeds as part of a website provided that you create a reciprocal link back to Start in Salford. This should be either a functional link back to the Start in Salford content or display on-screen the URL from which the Start in Salford content can be obtained eg. www.startinsalford.org.uk/news.

All title, ownership rights and intellectual property rights in and to the Start in Salford Feed shall remain the property of Start in Salford. We reserve the right to prevent the distribution of Start in Salford content and Start in Salford does not accept any liability for its feeds.