UKNDA NEWS FEED

Our News Feed

The UKNDA outputs the news from the news centre as an RSS news feed, this is available from the following address: http://www.uknda.org/rssfeeds/news.asp, for more information about news feeds and how to use them please see the information below:

What are News Feeds?

News feeds allow you to see when our website has added new content. You can get the latest headlines from the news centre in one place, as soon as its published, without having to visit our website each time.

Feeds are also known as RSS. There is some discussion as to what RSS stands for, but most people plump for 'Really Simple Syndication'. In essence, the feeds themselves are just web pages, designed to be read by computers rather than people.

How do I start using feeds?

In general, the first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks the feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are down-loadable applications.

Browser-based news readers let you catch up with your RSS feed subscriptions from any computer, whereas down-loadable applications let you store them on your main computer, in the same way that you either download your e-mail using Outlook, or keep it on a web-based service like Hotmail.

Once you have chosen a news reader, simply the News Centre and you will notice an orange button at the top of the page which looks like .

If you click on the RSS button you can subscribe to the feed in various ways, including by dragging the URL of the feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader. Most sites that offer feeds use a similar orange button, but some may just have a normal web link.

Some browsers, including Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera and Safari, automatically check for feeds for you when you visit a website, and display an icon when they find one. This can make subscribing to feeds much easier. For more details on these, please check their websites.

How do I get a news reader?

There is a range of different news readers available and new versions are appearing all the time.

Different news readers work on different operating systems, so you will need to choose one that will work with your computer.

News Readers

Using UKNDA feeds on your site

If you run your own website, you can display the latest headlines from other websites on your own site using RSS.

We encourage the use of UKNDA feeds as part of a website, however, we do require that the proper format and attribution is used when UKNDA content appears. The attribution text should read "UKNDA News" or "uknda.org/news.asp" as appropriate.

We reserve the right to prevent the distribution of UKNDA News content and the UKNDA does not accept any liability for its feeds.