Using QuickSub to make it easier for your visitors to subscribe
to your feed
You can make it easier for your visitors to subscribe to your
RSS feed. With a free and easy to install javascript function
you can add the QuickSub feed
button to your webpage in just a few minutes. Let me show you
just how easy it is.
QuickSub is a javascript mouseover function that produces a list
of RSS feed readers that you can use to subscribe to your RSS
news feed with one click. You can see it in action on my RSS resource site, just
move the mouse over the subscribe link. You should see a list of
RSS feed readers. If you click on one of the news reader links
it will open up that RSS reader and add this feed to it. You
will need the particular news reader installed on your computer
for this to work. So for example if your visitor uses
SharpReader as their RSS reader then they would click on the
Sharpreader link and this would add your feed to your visitors
RSS reader.
To use QuickSub on your site you will first need to download the
javascript and CSS files from QuickSubs site.
The file is compressed so you will need to unzip the file which
will leave you with quicksub.css and quicksub.js as well as a
sample html file.
Upload the CSS as javascript file to your server. Now you will
need to add some code into your web pages. You will need to do
this for all of the pages that you wish to use QuickSub on.
Please note that in these examples I have used square brackets
instead of angled brackets.
First you need to copy some code to call the CSS file. Add this
line with your head tags.
[style type="text/css"] @import "quicksub.css"; [/style]
Then copy this code into the body of your page.
[div id="quickSub" style="position:absolute; visibility:hidden;
z-index:1000;" onMouseOut="return timeqs();" onMouseMove="return
delayqs();"][/div] [script language="JavaScript"
src="quicksub.js"][!-- quickSub (c) Jason Brome --][/script]
Then where you want to use QuickSub place this code in the body
of your page.
[a href="http://www.sitename.com/rssfeed.xml" onmouseout="return
timeqs();" onmouseover="return quicksub(this,
'http://www.sitename.com/rssfeed.xml');"]Your link text here[/a]
You just need to replace the path with the path to you RSS feed
and enter you own link text. All is left now is to upload your
modified page to your web server and the new QuickSub javascript
will be active.