Wherever you see this RSS Feed symbol it means that you can subscribe to the content of that page and automatically keep up to date with the latest content on our site. This video on youtube gives a short explanation of RSS. Learn more about how to start using RSS Feeds below.
What are News Feeds?
News feeds allow you to see when websites that you subscribe to 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 Gmail or Hotmail.
Below are some examples,
- Windows FeedReader, Newz Crawler, FeedDemon, Awasu
- Mac OS X Newsfire, NetNewsWire
- Web Google, Bloglines, FeedZilla, NewsGator, My Yahoo!
- Browser Mozilla Firefox
(Hancock McDonald ELT is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.)
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.
Using Hancock McDonald ELT 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 Hancock McDonald ELT feeds as part of a website provided that you create a reciprocal link back to hancockmcdonald.com. This should be either a functional link back to the Hancock McDonald ELT content or display on-screen the URL from which the Hancock McDonald ELT content can be obtained eg. www.hancockmcdonald.com/blog.
All title, ownership rights and intellectual property rights in and to the Hancock McDonald ELT Feed shall remain the property of Hancock McDonald ELT. We reserve the right to prevent the distribution of Hancock McDonald ELT content and Hancock McDonald ELT does not accept any liability for its feeds.
