As of this month, I (Garry) decided to start publishing some of the Access Unlimited news using the popular RSS XML news format. Well I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to integrate this format into my normal publishing so I decided to adopt XML as the primary method to distribute news content at vb123.com. Then I thought what if YOU, the audience, still wanted to receive the Access Unlimited news in emails like you do now.


What Is This VB123 XML RSS Feed Thing ?

If you have been surfing the web lately, you may have noticed that most popular sites now have an orange or red XML button(s) scattered around some of the pages on the web site. In case you don’t already know, these buttons indicate that you can retrieve information and news into your own RSS (Really Simple Syndication) news reader.

In technical terms, this indicates that a text file has been setup with specific XML tags to describe (new) material at the web site. The XML tags inside the file have a title, a hyperlink, a description and a date of publishing for a particular page at the website as a minimum. Generally you can click on the XML button and this will take you to the XML text file in question. Whilst you probably wouldn’t want to read the XML more than once, the internet address of the XML file is important because you will add that address to your RSS Reader.

You can find our RSS news (XML text file) at the following location
http://www.vb123.com/news/rss1.xml

And you can find plenty of RSS readers by going to our news page
http://www.vb123.com/news/

The thing that I like about this type of service is that you can combine a number of news feeds together to produce your own personal magazine. We hope that you will add our feed to your collection.

If anyone has a great RSS newsletter reader, let me know and I will add to it to list.

Please let us know what you think of our RSS news.


WRAPPING THIS EDITION UP

This email newsletter has provided tips, help and information for skilled Microsoft Access® users and related software disciplines for free to thousands of readers for over six years now. So with our products selling well and XML coming along as a better way to deliver content, it was time to take a more commercial approach to the email newsletter. I hope you agree that the content is worth paying for because I would like Access Unlimited to continue to be an independent source of Access and related product news delivered to your Inbox every month.

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Garry Robinson - Software Consultant and Hopefully Publisher
GR-FX Pty Limited
Sydney, Australia.
Ph +61 2 9340 7789 Fax +61 2 9665 8448
Software Resources http://vb123.com/


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PS Don’t forget Garry’s Workbench 4… Compact your database, send messages to users, simple backups and now… Change those Startup properties

http://www.vb123.com/workbench/

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