What is RSS?

RSS stands for "really simple syndication" and is a way you can quickly and automatically receive notifications of news, columns, and updates to a Web site.

Through RSS, we are able to provide you with feeds that list article headlines, summaries, and links back to the latest full-text articles on TexasRealEstate.com.

To use this free service, you will need a news reader (or aggregator). You have several alternatives to choose from—downloading and installing an extension to your current browser, downloading and installing a stand-alone application, or subscribing via a Web-based reader built into portal sites such as My Yahoo!, My AOL, My MSN, and Google.

Browsers
Internet Explorer 7 automatically detects RSS feeds on sites and illuminates an icon on the toolbar. A single click on the icon allows you to preview and subscribe to the RSS feed, so you’re automatically notified as content is updated. Step-by-step instructions.

Internet Explorer 6.0 currently does not support RSS directly.

Firefox 2 uses "live" bookmarks that will detect RSS feeds. Look for the icon in the address line, and click on it to subscribe. The feeds will appear in your bookmarks list and will update automatically. Readers such as Feedview are also available as a Firefox extension.

The Netscape 8 browser has built-in support for RSS feeds and will automatically notify you whenever it finds feeds available on a Web site. When a feed is detected, click on the RSS icon in the address box or on the information bar that pops up.

Safari, which is currently available only on Macintosh computers, has built-in RSS viewing. Simply paste the URL of the feed into the browser and it will display the RSS feed fully formatted.

How to start using news readers or aggregators.

1. Select the method by which you want to aggregate your news (Web portal, browser, or stand-alone application).
2. Visit our RSS feed by clicking on the at right. You'll likely see a page of XML code with the document tree of the file. This is normal, ignore it. Depending on how the reader you selected works, either bookmark the page or copy and paste the URL for the page into your feed reader. If you use Google, My Yahoo, or My AOL, you can simply click on one of the Web portal links, at right, to add the feed.
3. Once you see the feed in your reader, you can click on the headline of each story to visit the site and read it in its entirety.