This web site is intended to provide current and relavent information for Scouting within Surrey. From this page we intend to provide some answers to frequently asked questions regarding this website.

The website does not intend to reproduce the content of other major resources on the Internet (such as the Headquarters Web site (www.scout.org.uk) or the Official Members Web site (www.scoutbase.org.uk) however will attempt to link to them where this is possible.

The wider Internet also provides us with a huge selection of information and services that will be of interest to users of this site. However use of the Internet, connecting to it, browsing web sites and using the services it provides does not come without risk. Therefore we feel it is also important to provide links to sites that can help all our visitors to understand the risks of connecting to the Internet and how they can protect themselves and others.

The Surrey Scouts Website provides a news feed (can be viewed on the main home page) which details new information and activity announcements from across the County.

This news feed is made available as an RSS feed (Really Simple Syndication) which is a popular standard way of sharing news across the internet. The use of RSS feeds will undoubtedly increase over the coming years and we can now find support for RSS feeds within the latest versions of Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook, amongst others.

The website provides many feeds (lookout for the  icon) however the most popular feed will be the County News Feed. This can be accessed from http://www.surrey-scouts.org.uk/DesktopModules/Orizonti_NukeNews/getRSS.aspx?pid=0&tid=62&mid=395&cnt=5. However many District, Group and even Section Websites may wish to include a live feed of this news on their site.

Having added the prepared HTML code onto your website, visitors will be presented with up to the minute news from the Surrey Scouts Website, without you having to do anything! It's an easy web of getting a regularly updating website with very little effort!

So how can this be done? Well there are many ways to achieve this, however one of the easiest methods is to use a free service that provides you with a simple piece of HTML code (HTML is the language used to write web pages) to add to your website. It allows you to select number of items to display, text colour and so on. You can access the RSS converter from http://www.rss-to-javascript.com and follow the simple instructions provided.

If you need any further help or advice feel free to contact the Webmaster. Further information about RSS can be found on Wikipedia.