Wednesday, March 12, 2014

RSSing: Building my Blog Feeds

       Given the task of building my RSS feed for my blog, I thought this would be an easy task. After I started researching and finding feeds for my blog my view point changed. I was familiar with RSS feeds and Podcast before this project, but keeping up with them or using them has been challenging. I recently began using Feedly to help me keep up with some of the library and technology blogs that I have been interested in following.  Reading them has been another case. 

       Building my RSS feed for my blog was challenging at first.  I became frustrated with some of the instruction on Google’s website.




     It took a few times to get this to work due to my misunderstanding of the instructions.  Once I understood the instructions, I was able to add other blogs and podcast I was following to my page. This led me to really look at my Blogger page, and figure out the layout and design I wanted. I was able to play around with my page and get a clear picture of what I wanted it to look like.  It was much easier to add other blogs and podcast I enjoyed.   

             


     












Some good things to think about when you are adding the RSS feed to your blogger site using Google:
  •     Make sure you read all the instructions first
  •     Don’t get frustrated, it’s okay to mess up (You can always undo it)