How to keep up to date with What's On using RSS Feeds

If you want to keep up to date with events planned in Little Baddow, you can always check the website. However, if you wish, you can arrange to avoid wasting time checking the site when nothing has changed. Your computer can be set to do this for you automatically.

How to set it up

To set this up, you “subscribe” to the What’s On page of this site at no charge.

This icon appears at the top of the "What's On" page and you simply click on it to subscribe – you can always cancel this later if you wish to do so.

Once you have done so, thereafter what happens depends upon which browser you use.

Internet Explorer instructions

If you use Internet Explorer, the next time you are using it, click on the yellow star near the top left hand corner. Up will come a box where the top line has 3 options: “Favourites”, “Feeds”, and “History”. Click on “Feeds”. You will then see – possibly amongst others – a line that reads “Latest News from Little Baddow”.

Every time you look, then if that text is bold there is something new in the “What’s On” section of the website, and if you click on the text then you will be shown the latest update. If that text is not bold, there’s nothing new since the last time you looked. So the quick way to see if there’s anything new is to look in “Feeds” and see if it’s bold.

Firefox instructions

Subscribing to an RSS web feed is as simple as creating a so called Live Bookmark. And to make life even easier Firefox can auto detect some feeds, and provide a shortcut for subscribing.

Subscribing to an RSS feed (pre 1.5) : When you visit a site and you see the orange icon in the bottom right part of the Mozilla Firefox browser window (the status bar), or if you are using version 1.5 or newer, in the right most part of the address bar.

Subscribing to an RSS feed (1.5 and later) : You can add the feed(s) by clicking the orange icon and subscribing to one. If there is more then one RSS feed, Firefox shows a list from which you can pick one.

Adding a Live Bookmark : I prefer to add the Live bookmarks to the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder, normally shown under the navigation toolbar, so I can have a quick peek at recent events with just one mouse click.