This is the fourth in a five part series on creating your first Podcast. The introduction and index for this series can be found here: Creating Your First Podcast Feed
Step 4: Copying and Pasting the RSS Link to Your Web Homepage
To Copy and Paste the RSS Link to Your Web Homepage:
Podcasts are delivered to subscribers through an Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed link. RSS is a form of a software that supplies Web Content through a Web Feed, such as podcasts, news Websites, Weblogs (blogs), and other formats through a Web feed, such as an aggregator like itunes. The version of RSS used for our Podcast is “RSS 2.0″. An aggregator is a customized software or program that interprets and displays information from RSS feeds.
The RSS Link is a hyperlink to the XML code that is your podcast channel, containing information about podcast episodes and podcast images. Clicking the Feed XML: RSS 2.0 logo on a Podcast page, displays it’s XML code. The code is the podcast channel and all podcast episodes information entered in the Podcast creation.
- Select My Website from the drop-down list at the top of the window. The My Website Home window appears.
- Click Podcast. The Podcast window appears.
- If the new podcast channel you want to copy and paste the RSS Link is opened
, Continue with Step 4. - Select the RSS Link to highlight it.
- Copy the RSS feed link URL and image path to the clipboard or buffer of your computer.
- Select My Files from the drop-down list at the top of the window. The My Files Home window appears.
- Select All Files. The Directory Properties: All Files window appears.
- Select www from the Directory Contents column. The Properties: www window appears.
- Select htdocs from the Directory Contents column. The Properties: htdocs window appears.
- Place your cursor in the index.html field.
- Select Properties. The Properties: index.html and File Editor appears.
- Place your cursor in the File Editor field, where you want the RSS 2.0 link and logo to appear.
- Press Ctrl+v to paste the RSS link and logo in the File Editor field.
- Click Save. A message appears stating the index.html has been edited.
If the new podcast channel you want to copy and paste the RSS Link is closed, then click the Expand symbol 
. The Podcast window refreshes with the podcast channel opened displaying the information for that channel. Continue with Step 4.
The RSS feed link URL is: http://www.domain.com/podcasts/channel.rss