Css & Rss

[geline]

And just what are CSS and RSS feeds?

I have been seeing them almost anywhere but I still don't understand it.

Sorry for my being a noob.

[Nicole2112]

I think you're asking two different questions: What is CSS, and what is RSS?

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It's a mark-up language that allows you to create a "style" for a web page such that you don't use a lot of clumsy HTML "font" tags and invisible .gifs to arrange things, and such that you can apply a single style sheet to a lot of different web pages without writing a lot of repetitive code. Use of CSS tends to revolve around the ideal of separating style from content. Ideally, you can have a very simple HTML page with text content in it, and then change the way that content looks easily by changing the style sheet rather than the HTML.

For more information, I recommend checking out the W3C's documentation here (http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/).

I think that RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication", but I could be wrong. RSS is nothing more than an XML page which itemizes all your blog entries, or news articles, or anything else like that. The XML page communicates each item's title/headline, description and/or synopsis, the link you click to get to that item, etc. It makes it easy to "syndicate" your feed--let another web site load up your latest entry by pulling in the RSS file and loading up its contents. It also lets some browsers, like Mozilla Firefox, give you a live bookmark folder with links to each of the last ten or so items.

I think I'm doing a bad job of explaining this, so I'd better point you to a good link to correct anything I've gotten wrong. Here is a website proclaiming to be everything you ever needed to know about RSS, (http://www.rss-specifications.com/what-is-rss.htm) including what it is and how to incorporate it into your website.

Whew! How's that?

[geline]

Wow! Nicole you are great :)

It is only now that I have an understanding of what these terms really mean.

In one forums I joined, I remembered it opened an XML file - only to find out that it was an RSS feed link that I was clicking. I also find this type of message in the email of my boss. Although I can't clearly understand everything yet, I have an idea of what CSS and RSS mean and look like.

Thanks! :)