News feed styling with CSS

The Web Feed Generator includes a Cascading Style Sheet to present RSS news feeds in a browser-friendly news preview format. This page is a collection of reference articles and external links about news feed styling with CSS.

Web Feed Reference

The Web Feed Reference section covers all aspects of publishing news feeds with the Web Feed Generator. These items explain the use of Cascading Style Sheets to create a more user-friendly news feed preview.

• What are these entries for RSS.css?
• How do I format my Simple Syndication feed?

Our screen shots page also shows how our browser-friendly news feed styling works in three popular Web browsers:

• Internet Explorer news feed style
• Mozilla Firefox news feed style
• Opera news feed style

External links

These links point to background articles about the use of Cascading Style Sheets with RSS news feeds. Some items use technical jargon that may be unfamiliar; see our Web Feed Reference glossary for plain English explanations.

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• Ben Hammersley introduces the idea of Making Your RSS Feed Look Pretty in a Browser in this O'Reilly Network article.
• Dave Shea believes that news feed styling may contribute to Plugging the RSS Usability Hole.
• This blog entry by Pete Freitag explains the basic principles of Adding a CSS StyleSheet to your RSS Feed.

Web Feed Generator

The Web Feed Generator makes it easy to add an RSS news feed to your Web site; our service profile is a check list of the main features.

• System requirements are absolutely minimal.
• The big picture service overview shows the low maintenance advantage of our approach.
• Our flat-rate, no-strings payment options make the Web Feed Generator an easy choice.
• Plan your Web Feed now: contact us with your requirements