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Drupal is 2nd most famous CMS after Joomla. It has many features such as multi user, blogs, themes and can be extended using plugins. It’s already used by many big portals, such as what the drupal.org claims:

Today, Drupal powers sites including the homepages of Warner Brothers Records, The New York Observer, Fast Company, Popular Science, and Amnesty International and project sites by SonyBMG, Forbes, Harvard University, and more. Drupal can be used to create personal weblogs (Tim Berners-Lee), deliver podcasts (TWIT.tv), connect online communities (SpreadFireFox.com), form artist collectives (Terminus 1525) or inform the masses (The Onion).

This is steps you can do to install Drupal on your webserver:

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RSS feed is a method for broadcasting your site. It’s a xml file that describes your site condition so that everyone can access it. Usually the description on rss feed only contain teaser of the article.
RSS feed consists of items. Each item represents article on your website. An item usually consists of TITLE , DESCRIPTION (this is where the teaser located), URL (url which the viewer should click to open the article’s full version). Each item should be opened with <item> tag and closed with </item> tag.

<item>
<title>My New Article</title>
<description>Hey guys, i guess it’s already a long time not writing on this blog… bla…bla…bla…</description>
<link>http://yourblog_URL.com/2008/10/10/new-article</link>
</item>

One rss file can contain many items that represents the amount of articles you’d like to broadcast. A RSS file should also contain Title, Description and Link that describes the root address of your blog, for example:

<title>Your blog's Title</title>
<description>Everything about Computer</description>
<link>yourblog_URL.com</link>

The information of your blog should be contained inside the <channel> and </channel> tag, but outside the <item> and </item> tag.

Insert the version of your RSS feed by using:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

So the complete code should be:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<rss version=”2.0″>

<title>Your blog's Title</title>
<description>Everything about Computer</description>
<link>yourblog_URL.com</link>

<item>
<title>My New Article</title>
<description>Hey guys, i guess it’s already a long time not writing on this blog… bla…bla…bla…</description>
<link>http://yourblog_URL.com/2008/10/10/new-article</link>
</item>

<item>
<title>Old article Article</title>
<description>Old article’s contain…</description>
<link>http://yourblog_URL.com/2008/10/10/old-article</link>
</item>
</channel>

</rss>