Friday, March 07, 2008

Subscribe To RSS Using IE 7

This is just a quickie tutorial on joining RSS feeds using IE7. If you'd like to stay up to date with my blogs you can certainly add my blog URL to your Favorites and visit here any time when it's good for you. OR... you can SUBSCRIBE to my blog. But before I explain any further, let's pretend you are using Microsoft's Internet Explorer version 7 web browser to surf the web and subscribe to RSS feeds.



Shown below, is the IE 7 toolbar showing the orange RSS logo. This is what you will see when you visit my blog website. Click on the RSS button to begin the subscribe process.



After you click the RSS button you'll see the screen shown below:



Click the link, "Subscribe to this feed" shown above and the box below will appear.



Click, "Subscribe" and my blog will be added to your Feeds. You can easily access your Feeds just as you would your Favorites using the menus, shortcut keys OR click, "Yellow Favorites Star" in your toolbar and click, "Feeds" then click, "HappyHarryNET" and voila.

Ctrl+Shift+J takes you directly to Feeds. Notice that the Feeds tab is also located in the same window as Favorites and History. For many of you, clicking the Yellow Favorites Star and then clicking Feeds will be just as easy. Below is a picture of what the screen looks like after you press, Ctrl+Shift+J Note the HappyHarryNET feed shown in the feed list.



Below is what the screen looks like after you click on HappyHarryNET in the Feeds list.



When you subscribe to an RSS feed and access it from your Feeds list, it will contain every version of the feed since you subscribed. The only real difference between reading my blog via RSS as opposed to viewing my blog website, would be the colors and appearance. The RSS version as shown above is not the black background with green headings, white text and lavender links. But, for the sake of reading, it doesn't really matter. The content is there, the pictures are there. However, if you prefer the look and feel of the, "black blog" then just add my blog to your Favorites and visit my blog using that method. The choice is yours.

As your RSS interests grow, I suggest using a dedicated RSS feeder program to better manage RSS feeds. Top 10 Free Windows RSS Feed Readers / News Aggregators

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