WebPlus Essentials User Guide - Serif

252 Adding Dynamic Content
A Remote
script
4. Optionally, the Export Options... button lets you
define a web file name and folder for the script.
5. Choose a submission method, encoding type,
target window/frame, and Character set.
Use if your ISP will not allow you to run your own scripts
on your ISP web space. Instead, your ISP may supply a
basic script file that can be linked to from your web page.
Typically, the script will send the form data back to your
email address (already setup with your ISP).
To set up a remote script file:
RSS feeds and podcasts
1. With the Remote script icon enabled, add a
Form name.
2. Enter a URL pointing directly to a script file,
typically a .cgi, .pl, .dll, or .exe file.
3. Choose a submission method, encoding type,
target window/frame, and Character set.
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are streams of constantly changing
news and information which are very popular on fast-paced websites. The
popularity of RSS feeds is evident if you use Internet-based news services
regularly. You'll see RSS feeds indicated on websites by a symbol—by
clicking the symbol the user may be able to manually or automatically subscribe
to that RSS feed via a RSS Reader.
Podcasts are syndication feeds just like RSS feeds but offer slightly different
options that reflect a podcast's use of digital media such as audio and video files.
Put simply, RSS feeds will publish articles, while podcasts will broadcast
information as episodes.
In WebPlus, you can create your own RSS feeds or podcasts that you can
frequently publish and update. In essence, you become the publisher (rather than
the reader) of one or more information services containing headlines, site
summaries or your very own articles. For podcasts, you broadcast media clips as
episodes.