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What is the Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service News Feed?
The Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service News feed allows you to see when we have added new content to our site without having to visit our website.
Feeds are also known as RSS. There is some discussion as to what RSS stands for, most people agree on 'Really Simple Syndication', but what an RSS feed is in reality are just web pages, designed to be read by computers rather than people.
How do I start using feeds?
In general, the first thing you need is something called 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 Hotmail.
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.
Here is the URL for our feed (please cut and paste into your news reader):
http://www.cheshirefire.gov.uk/feed.xml
Some browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Safari, automatically check for feeds for you when you visit a website, and display an icon when they find one. This can make subscribing to feeds much easier. For more details on these, please check their websites.
NEWS READERS
Windows
Mac OS X
Web
Browsers
- Mozilla Firefox
- Opera
- Safari
- Internet Explorer 7
