I'm having some success with developing the RSS feed for my company's website. We're a publisher, so still quite new to it all but it's going well.
My question to you seasoned web designers is how detailed should a feed be?
We're using it as an updater when a new product, event and so on is added to our site. I've played around with images in it - single and multiple - several lines of text, one or two paragraphs etc.
The thing is, most feeds tend to be just one or two lines or a paragrpah at most then a link.
Is there an ideal? Some of it has to depend on what you're using it for I guess. I like the polished look images give a feed (our company logo nicely aligned and with text running to the right with a decent amount of white space for example). It also helps to draw a relationship between the feed and the web page it links to. However, it's been suggested the feed should be pared down - just a couple of lines - to get people to hook to your site.
What's the consensus here?
My question to you seasoned web designers is how detailed should a feed be?
We're using it as an updater when a new product, event and so on is added to our site. I've played around with images in it - single and multiple - several lines of text, one or two paragraphs etc.
The thing is, most feeds tend to be just one or two lines or a paragrpah at most then a link.
Is there an ideal? Some of it has to depend on what you're using it for I guess. I like the polished look images give a feed (our company logo nicely aligned and with text running to the right with a decent amount of white space for example). It also helps to draw a relationship between the feed and the web page it links to. However, it's been suggested the feed should be pared down - just a couple of lines - to get people to hook to your site.
What's the consensus here?