Putting BTL News on Your Site

Using the BTL News Sticker

Put Michigan's most up-to-date news for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders and friends on your website. It's easy! Simply copy the code in the box below into one of your webpages, and leave the rest to us! Your site will then include up to the minute updated news from Pridesource.com/BTL News. To preview what it will look like on your site, click here. Techies: The sticker is loaded via Javascript, and is a plain, CSS1 compliant table of 150 pixels wide and a variable length. Please let us know if you embed us - send email to kevin@pridesource.com.

<!-- BTL LiveNews Sticker Page, code update 8/22/2005 --> <script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.pridesource.com/sticker.html"> </script>

BTL RSS feeds

What is RSS?

RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) is a format based on XML, created to easily share web content, and is particularly suitable for news items. You can use it to display headlines on another site or you can use a program called a “news aggregator” to read the news. These programs allow you to subscribe to various RSS feeds from different news sites. The programs automatically go to the web sites to check for updates, so the stories come to you, without you having to check the sites for new stories.

BTL publishes an RSS feed, updated when our site is updated, that includes the ten topmost news articles on our site, as well as any breaking news.

BTL News RSS Feed
BTL Life & Style RSS Feed
BTL Columnists Feed

BTL recommends Awasu for Windows, NetNewsWire for Mac OS X, Liferea for Linux, and the Sage Firefox plugin for all platforms.

For Windows

• Awasu
• Feedreader
• infoSnorkel
• NewzCrawler

For .Net Framework (possibly to work on Mono)

• SharpReader
• GtkSharpRSS (requires Gtk#)

For Mac

• NetNewsWire
• NewsFan
• NewsFire
• NewsMac
• Plucky
• PulpFiction
• SlashDoc
• RocketInfo

For Linux

• Liferea
• Straw

For all platforms

As an application/plugin

• Amphetadesk
• Sage (a plugin to FireFox)
• Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client

As an accessible webpage aggregation

• Bloglines
• Fastbuzz
• NewsIsFree
• Livejournal (Livejournal allows subscriptions to RSS and Atom feeds via their friends list mechanism.)

Creating your own RSS feeds

• A comprehensive review of RSS (somewhat technical)

License for use

BTL News Sticker and BTL RSS feeds are free for personal non-commercial, and other non-commercial use. For other uses, please contact us at 888-615-7003.