You can make it simpler for your visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed. With a free and simple to set up javascript perform you can include the http://www.methodize.org/quicksub/ (QuickSub) feed button to your webpage in just a few minutes. Let me show you just how simple it is.

QuickSub is a javascript mouseover perform that produces a checklist of RSS feed visitors that you can use to subscribe to your RSS news feed with 1 click on. You can see it in action on my RSS resource website, just transfer the mouse over the subscribe hyperlink. You ought to see a checklist of RSS feed visitors. If you click on on 1 of the news reader hyperlinks it will open up that RSS reader and include this feed to it. You will need the particular news reader set up on your computer for this to perform. So for instance if your visitor uses SharpReader as their RSS reader then they would click on on the Sharpreader hyperlink and this would include your feed to your visitors RSS reader.

To use QuickSub on your website you will initial need to download the javascript and CSS files from QuickSubs website. The file is compressed so you will need to unzip the file which will leave you with quicksub.css and quicksub.js as well as a sample html file.

Upload the CSS as javascript file to your server. Now you will need to include some code into your internet pages. You will need to do this for all of the pages that you want to use QuickSub on.

Make sure you be conscious that in these examples I have utilized square brackets instead of angled brackets.

First you need to duplicate some code to contact the CSS file. Include this line with your head tags.

[style type="text/css"] @import “quicksub.css” [/style]

Then duplicate this code into the physique of your web page.

[div id="quickSub" style="position:absolute; visibility:hidden; z-index:1000;" onMouseOut="return timeqs();" onMouseMove="return delayqs();"][/div] [script language="JavaScript" src="quicksub.js"][!-- quickSub (c) Jason Brome --][/script]

Then exactly where you want to use QuickSub location this code in the physique of your web page.

[a href="http://www.sitename.com/rssfeed.xml" onmouseout="return timeqs();" onmouseover="return quicksub(this, 'http://www.sitename.com/rssfeed.xml');"]Your hyperlink text right right here[/a]

You just need to change the route with the route to you RSS feed and enter you individual hyperlink text. All is left now is to upload your modified web page to your internet server and the new QuickSub javascript will be energetic.

Allan is the webmaster at NewsNiche an RSS resource for webmasters. Learn how to use RSS to entice and retain visitors to your website.