Setting up an Animated Headline Badge for your NewsCloud Feed

If you would like to set up an animated headline badge of your NewsCloud feed to display on your blog or personal Web site (or even email signature), you can follow the steps below as one possible set of options. Here is an example badge for my NewsCloud feed:

Sign up for a Feedburner Account

FeedBurner is a feed management provider that can help you optimize your NewsCloud feed, publicize it on your blog or Web site, analyze traffic to your feed and even make money from your feed.

If you have a FeedBurner account, you can now connect your NewsCloud feed to FeedBurner, so that your subscribers will automatically pull the feed from FeedBurner without having to switch URLs. Don't have a FeedBurner account? Get one now.

Next, add your NewsCloud Channel Feed to your Feedburner account. Your RSS feed URL is
http://www.newscloud.com/rss/channel/<your_member_name>/

Then, select the new feed in your Feedburner account and click Publicize. Select the Headline Animator option. Take the HTML code Feedburner gives you for the Headline Animator, and place it in your blog, Web site or email signature.

The code will look something like this:

<a href="http://www.newscloud.com/channel/jeff"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/newscloudJeff.gif" style="border:0" alt="My NewsCloud Feed"/></a>

Feedburner has two styles of Headline Animator that you can choose from.

Classic Headline Animator

Email Signature Animator

They also have technical help for placing the Animator code into your email program's signature settings.

More information on the Feedburner Headline Animator.

You might also want to read this post on setting the autodiscovery link for your NewsCloud channel.

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