ChristianCruz.com is pleased to be able to provide three versions (1.0, 2.0 and Atom) of our RSS feed.

What Are RSS Feeds?
RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication." It is a technology designed for sharing headlines and other web content. There is a lot more that could be said, but that's the gist of it. Our RSS feed, which includes headlines of Christian events and news items from Santa Cruz County, can be accessed in its three different versions from the "Syndicate Our Site" menu in the right hand column of most pages on our site (if you visit those links, they will look like gibberish, but you will need the addresses for some of the applications referenced below).

How Can I Use RSS Feeds?
There are a variety of ways RSS feeds can be used. Here are the main uses which may be of interest to you:

Syndicate Our Headlines On Your Website
By adding a few small lines of code to your website, headlines of Santa Cruz County Christian News and Events can be automatically added to your website. What's more, the headlines will update automatically - once you've added the code, you won't have to do anything!

To add our headlines to your website, just copy the javascript below into the code of your webpage:

<script src="http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/viewer/?rss=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.christiancruz.com%2Findex.php%2Fweblog%2Frss_1.0%2F"></script> <noscript><a href="http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/viewer/?rss=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.christiancruz.com%2Findex.php%2Fweblog%2Frss_1.0%2F">View </a> </noscript>

If you would like to modify the appearance of the headlines on your site, you can place the following styles in the style sheet of your web page (or between tags in the header of your web page):

/* rssexpresschannel controls the settings for the entire listing */ .rssxpresschannel { font-family : sans-serif; text-align : left; } /* use rssxpresschtitle to control the title (ChristianCruz)*/ .rssxpresschtitle { font-size : large; color : #006393; text-align : left; } /* use rssxpressittitle to change the appearance of each individual article link */ .rssxpressittitle { font-size : 100%; line-height : 120%; background-color : white; } /* rssxpressdivider is a special case - it is a single pixel, single column row on the rssxpress channel - to alter it's color, just change the background-color image. */ .rssxpressdivider { background-color : black; } Read Our Headlines In Your Email Or RSS Aggregator
By using an RSS Aggregator, you can view headlines from our website (and other websites) in an easy-to-read fashion and then click through only to the stories which interest you.

The following are some popular RSS Aggregators which may be of use to you (some of these are free and some require a nominal payment). Unless otherwise noted, these applications are for Windows systems.

• Awasu
• BlogMatrix Jager
• FeedDemon
• intraVnews
• Liferea (for Linux)
• NewsGator (integrates with Microsoft Outlook, but not Outlook Express)
• NewsMonster
• NewzCrawler
• RocketInfo RSS Reader
• Shrook (for Mac OS X)
• Sauce Reader
• SharpReader

Read Our Headlines On Your Handheld Device
By using Hand/RSS, an inexpensive application for Palm OS handhelds, you can even read our headlines on your Palm OS device! Just download the free 30-day trial or purchase a license, and before you know it, you will be able to keep up with Santa Cruz County Christian News wherever you are!

If you have a Pocket-PC, try PocketFeed.