I’ve come to realize that not enough people understand the full functionality of RSS feeds.  I know I didn’t for the longest time.  But now I do, and I don’t know what the internet did before it.  Allow me to explain.

Viewing blogs and regularly updated sites on the internet used to be like going to walmart.  You’d have to drive there and then do you shopping [type in the url and find the articles you want to read].  But viewing blogs and regularly updated sites now is like a type of shopping that hasn’t been invented [note to self, invent a new system of shopping].  RSS takes the articles I write [aka my blog] and pushes them to your computer.  So you know when I have new exciting articles, and you don’t even have to remember to go to my site.

Yeah, so I figure the reason people don’t use RSS is because they don’t know how.  So allow me to educate you:

It will be a little different depending on what operating system [Mac or Windows] and which browser you use [Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer].

On Safari:

go to my site [done.] and click on the RSS icon    [not this one, but the one on the right].  That should take you to a plain page with a blue header.  Bookmark that page [apple+d].  Make sure you put it somewhere in your bookmark bar that way you can see the update.  Now, it should put some numbers next to the name every time I update.

On Firefox:

Go to your preferences [OS X: apple+,   Windows: Edit->preferences].  Then click on ‘Feeds’.  Then click on ‘subscribe to the feed using:’.  Then click ‘Live Bookmarks’. After that you can hit ‘ok’ are close or whatever to get rid of those windows.  Then go to my site and click on the RSS icon in the top right.  Then bookmark that page.  Remember to put it in your bookmark bar that way you can see when I update.

On Internet Explorer:

I don’t want to hate on ol’ IE but there are some seriously better browsers out there.  So it doesn’t deserve a tutorial.  Call me biased or prejudice but all I’m saying is what I’m saying.

Hope this has helped.  Leave comments if you have alternate methods of subscribing, or if you can’t figure out my tutorial.  

Andrew Nemeth