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The Benefits of Using RSS News Feeds on Your Flash Website

Learn a little bit about the Flash platform as well as the benefits of adding a news feed when you develop a website using Flash.

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform developed by Macromedia that is commonly used to create online animations and games and interactive websites. The Flash format is one of the most used for graphically appealing websites and programmers can do a lot with Flash programming.

If you are a programmer yourself, of if you are working with a programmer to develop a website for yourself or your business, then you may be interested in hearing about the benefits of using RSS news feeds in Flash. RSS, which stands for “Rich Site Summary,” syndicates content from outside sources to your website. You or your programmer simply needs to install an RSS widget or RSS gadget on your Flash site and indicate the URLs of the sites you would like to take content from and each time new content is published on these sites it will be delivered to your site as well.

Using RSS in Flash websites can be a great way to constantly update your site with new news without having to write content yourself. Depending on which sites you feed from you could update your site with new content several times a day. You don’t have to do any work—the RSS feed in your Flash website takes the content automatically. As you can see, this can be a great way to bring content to your Flash site.

How does Feedzilla work?

Feedzilla is a news aggregator which categorizes news stories by topic. It is a platform where webmasters and bloggers can find an unmatched selection of easy to use, automatically updating and professional news widgets for their sites. Feedzilla supports the building of widgets in various formats, as well as allowing the addition of news widgets to different blogging platforms and social networks.

Feedzilla manually aggregates news summaries found in RSS feeds, and redistributes them in either RSS format or as a news widget. Content is collected 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from an ever-growing list of providers.

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