RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication, or Read Something Stupid for some sites with really bad content (hopefully this blog doesn't fall under that category!), but this blog isn't about fixing your content its about fixing your RSS in Joomla. I'm going to touch on two things, Joomla syndication and integrating Joomla with Feedburner, so if your already syndicating with Joomla, then check out our Feedburner integration blog entry. Let me give everyone an overview on what RSS does for you. Basically RSS is like an email, it takes what you have written and sends it out to your reader base. The difference is, with RSS, people subscribe to read your content whereas with email, you send it to people who may or may not care for your content. RSS is also important because it is automatic, for instance, this blog post is fed via RSS to people who have been here to my blog before and have deemed it useful to them, they've subscribed to Joomla Packages' blog . Once I'm done with writing this and click save, it is placed in my feed's buffer to be syndicated to those individuals. The best part is when inevitably I find a spelling error or some grammatical error in my content I can change it and it will be reflected in my feed. Try that with an email newsletter! So how does this work?..

When I was young, I collected baseball cards. They were multi-functional, you could trade them with your friends, save the good ones, throw the bad ones, but most of all you could create things with them. I probably had too much time on my hands, but who didn't as a child. When you stack cards, you place them on edge and lean them on another card, everything depends on each card balancing the one it is leaning on perfectly. You start with two cards, lean them on each other /\ . Then you do another set /\/\. On top of the last set you place a card flat _ and it ties everything together for your next set. You continually do this to build larger structures. But as you add more cards, the weight of the cards as a whole, begins to work against your structure....Eventually the structure falls because the weight is too much and the balance becomes unstable. As a child, the point was to build your structure as high as possible. It was a simple child's game but somehow developing open source Joomla applications reminds me of this long lost art.