Reports from our 2015 Meetings
Reports from our 2015 Meetings
We continued our look at the Russ Weakleys Web Design course from Sitepoint with a look at the video on Russ's new methods of page construction. Russ has some unique ideas on structure, using class rather than id’s to build a page. We discussed the pros and cons of this approach. The main reason for the approach is that a class is reusable while an id is a once only use on a page. By using class you make all the code available for reuse. For example you can have more than one header if you create it as a class.
We then had a brief look at how to create an RSS feed. RSS can stand for Rich Site Summery or Really Simple Syndication. It’s like a simple text summary of the items on the site, and is used general as a way to highlight the new content on a site, or the new news items.
Using a reader the viewer can read the text and unlike a newsletter you don’t have to subscribe to read it. If the site has an RSS and you have Internet Explorer 11 or an RSS reader then the latest news or posting will pop up on the browser. It’s like a teletext for the internet.
An RSS is general called a feed and is written in XML. To create an RSS feed you can either write the XML or find a program that will convert to XML. The group looked at two RSS creators, Rssme a free program and RSS Feed Creator a 30 trial. Both appear easy to use however some practice is needed to come up to speed on using the programs. We created a simple RSS note. We created a hyperlink to the XML file using the RSS logo. We also noted the need to add a link in the head of the HTML page so the browser knew a feed was available.
Steve South
Sig Leader