Maybe. I've never used one. When I search on google looking for stock photos I sometimes come across RSS feeds. Come to think of it, RSS feeds aren't very interesting. They do what they do but I've never ran into a website and kept coming back because of the feed. They are good for what they are.... but I don't see it doing you any good promotion. A loyal visitor (the kind you want) will not be sucked in by your RSS feed. IMO anyway. Good website. I came from Designmeltdown looking for wallpapers. Know of a good website? email me.

Try The Inspiration Gallery. The site has alot of other wallpaper types, but the Damask gallery is what alot of the sites on DesignMeltdown used.

thank you

i was actually looking for desktop walls but this comes in handy

Hi :) I've just dropped in via UnmatchedStyle. I don't know any stats on RSS feed but I can say that as a busy, and probably very typical web user, if a site I like these days doesn't have an RSS feed I have to love it and leave it. No matter how good the content of that site might be I don't have the time to commit to checking it manually, and for that reason I always offer RSS feeds on all of my sites because I won't risk losing potential visitors. I also check all my feeds by email, rather than by feed reader, which is becoming increasingly popular. Feedburner have actually just introduced a very useful feature where you can offer your readers email subscription to RSS as well as a standard feed - http://www.feedburner.com/ . They also have stats so you can check how many people are subscribed to your feed.

I have been doing my research, and I just got into feedburner a few days ago. I also ran across the email subscription feature, and i'm looking into it. Since I wrote my own blog backend app, I don't have all the bells and whistles of the more standard packages, but i'm working on it!

I had the same feeling about the content being available outside of the intended design, so for my feed I've only provided the title of the post and a link to it. To be honest I never use RSS, I much prefer to visit my bookmarks directly.

RSS and subsequent developments of the like will change how users access the internet. I am a busy web developer, I don't always have the time to visit a site regularly, but using a RSS reader in Firefox allows me to be notified when something has changed on that site. What is the point of visiting a site everyday when nothing has been updated? I don't think you need to feed all of your content into RSS, simply enough to catch my attention and bring me to your site looking for more. The obvious thing here is that I would have had to come to your site at least once without using your RSS feed. If I liked your site and wanted to keep tabs on it, RSS is a great way to do that. Social bookmarking sites such as Digg and del.icio.us take the "internet coming to me" idea one step further by allowing others of like mind to supply me with links to sites I might enjoy. I have also recently started to use the Stumble Upon extension in Firefox and seriously wonder how I will get any work done with this new tool. It takes RSS and social bookmarking and turns it into what amounts to channel surfing on your TV. Press the Stumble Upon icon and a site is served up based on the categories I chose and the submissions from other users. Brilliant. Don't be afraid of RSS and the like. If your site is good and has value, people will come, regardless of if they bookmark you or come in via RSS. How do you think I cam across your site? I have lifehacker.com in my RSS feeds, which has a link to CSS Galleries, which had an RSS feed containing a link to your site. Otherwise how would I have ever found your site.

I added the RSS feed first and foremost as an experiment to see what sort of change if any it would have on new traffic and retention of visitors. So far, it has had quite an impact, as I now see regular traffic from a few popular newsreader sites. As they say, the proof is in the pudding!

I agree with Harmony. I do not have the time to go through a list of links every day checking to see if any have updated. (and if I do have the time I'm far too lazy to anyway) When I find something of interest while checking Bloglines I typically switch over to the actual website to read the article. Nothing beats the original formatting. If you dislike putting entire articles in your RSS feed, why not just offer an excerpt? Or even a title? The point is to let your visitors know you've updated in whichever manner you prefer and then let it go from there.