RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a standardised XML format for news items or date sensitive information. Most news websites will expose their news as RSS meaning they can be easily used by other sites. Podcasting is a method of publishing files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new files automatically by subscription. It is used mostly for audio files.
Sitekit CMS will automatically expose any news module in RSS format, and will expose any attached files in a format compatible with podcasting software including iTunes.
In order to access the URL for an RSS feed, the following may be used:
http://yoursitehere.sitekit.net/rss.aspx?id=12345
To access an RSS feed as a podcast, the following may be used:
http://yoursitehere.sitekit.net/rss.aspx?id=12345&podcast
The part of the URL in green above should be replaced with the domain name of your site, and the part in red should be replaced by the News Module ID (which can be found through editing the relevant news module)
Notes. this article assumes a general knowledge of XML and XLST. If you are not yet familiar with these then we suggest reading an XML tutorial and an XSLT tutorial