As soon as I upgraded to Mozilla Firefox 1.0, I started noticing that when I visited certain sites that had RSS/RDF feeds, a big orange "RSS" icon showed up in the lower right hand portion of the window.

That's cool. Click on that, and you can instantly see that site's current headlines, and know if the site has changed, just by looking in your bookmarks.

Except my site has an RSS feed and that icon didn't show up. Here's how I fixed it.

At first I figured Firefox was looking for the standard "XML" icon everyone uses. So I added that. No go.

So I investigated. A Google search didn't tell me anything useful. So I went to Slashdot's page and viewed the source. Four lines down, I found my answer.

In your section, you need to add a line. In my case, since I run GeekLog, it was this:

LINK REL="alternate" TITLE="Silicon Underground RSS" HREF="//dfarq.homeip.net/backend/siliconunderground.rdf" TYPE="application/rss+xml"

Just substitute the URL for your RSS feed for mine. The two slashes at the beginning are necessary. The whole line has to be enclosed in , of course. (I can't show them here because my blogging software is trying to protect me from myself.)

But since Geeklog doesn't have an index.html file, and its index.php file is mostly programming logic, where do you add your code?

In your themes directory, in the file header.thtml, that's where. I put mine right after the line that indicates the stylesheet.

The location for other blogging systems will vary, of course. But I notice some seem to do it automatically.

Now your readers can keep track of you without constantly refreshing your page (which they probably won't do) and without having to run a separate RSS aggregator. Pretty cool, huh?