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Eye movement simulator

The image below displays a simulation of human eye movement in the form of heat maps.

eye movement heat map

The Feng-GUI heatmap service is an automatic alternative to eye-tracking. Unlike eye-tracking or click-based heatmaps, Feng-GUI creates heatmaps based on an algorithm that predicts what a real human would be most likely to look at.

Read their explanation on how accurate their algorithms are….

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Structure of a RSS Feed

Sample RSS 2.0 Feed

<rss version="2.0"> <channel> <link>http://webdesign.about.com/rss2.0feed/ <description>An example of a simple RSS feed. This is the description of the feed itself, not an item.</description> <item> <link>http://webdesign.about.com/rss2.0feed/entry.html <description>This is the text that will appear in the feedreaders. It describes the post itself, not the entire feed.</description> <guid>http://webdesign.about.com/rss2.0feed/entry.html</guid> </link></item> </link></channel> </rss>

How to Build an RSS File from Scratch

Let them know that …

this is an XML File

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

this is an RSS 2.0 document

with a channel

containing a <title>, <link> & a <description>

and an <item>, item <title>, item <link>, item <description>

<item> <link>http://webdesign.about.com/rss2.0feed/entry.html <description>This is the text that will appear in the feedreaders. It describes the post itself, not the entire feed.</description> <guid>http://webdesign.about.com/rss2.0feed/entry.html</guid> </link></item>

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