Chapter 12. MCMS and RSS

The Web has been changing over the past few years. Gone are the days when you must browse to a website to see it has changed. You may browse to a website to get an overall view of the content but instead of taking time out of your busy day to check each of your favorite websites, why not aggregate all the changes automatically so you can quickly scan for relevant content? Really Simple Syndication (RSS), an XML format, has been around for several years and it provides the foundation of providing content and updates to users.

RSS already has wide adoption in the Weblog (blog) community and now corporate and community sites are catching on to this way of increasing content coverage through syndication. The effectiveness of a Content Management System can generally be gauged by the amount of time it takes to maintain content along with the time it takes users of the website to find the content changes. If users are notified of content changes without having...