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To add an RSS panel, click on the
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button, as shown below:
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The list of available panels types will disappear and the mouse pointer will transform in a white, cross-like pointer sign indicating where your panel will begin. Simply drag your mouse across the screen and you can size the panel,
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After selecting the RSS panel button, the mouse pointer changes into a white crosshair pointer, indicating that the designer is ready to draw your panel. Click and hold your left mouse button, starting at the point defining the upper-left corner of your new panel. Whilst still holding down the left mouse button, drag the marquee that will appear to the point that will define the lower-right corner of your panel, as shown below:
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To customize your Leaderboard an RSS panel, click on the 
button on the top-left corner of the screen, then select the 
icon to customise the panel, as shown below:
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The following screen will appear RSS panel properties window will open, containing the following tabs:
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To add an The
tab allows you to add the URL for your RSS feed,
type the URL in the RSS Url panel ( e.g.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/rss). Check if the feed is valid, by
pressing clicking on the
Check button. If the entry is valid, the RSS title will appear in the
RSS title field. Click on the
Add button to add this feed to your RSS panel, as
shown below:
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You can add as many RSS feeds as you like, following the same process. If you want to change their order, just click Following the same procedure, you can add multiple RSS feeds in your RSS panel.
If you RSS panel contains more than one RSS feed, you can change the order they will appear on your display board, by clicking on the
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icon alongside
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To delete an RSS feed from the RSS panel, just click on the
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Its RSS feed consists of the The
tab allows you change the look of your RSS feed, by a amending one or more of the following properties: the article title, the article description and the bullet point
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in the image below:
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Consequently, in order to change the appearance of a feed in your panel, you have to change the appearence of these sections that it cosnists of. To do so, select theAppearancetab. This will appear as follows:
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Article title | Enter the name of your article and select any styling properties if preferred, e.g font size, font style or text colour etc. |
| Article description | Enter a description for your article and select any styling properties if preferred, e.g font size, font style or text colour etc. |
Article title
To edit the appearance of either the Article title or Article description change the font's family and style. Choose the style of font you would like to use as well as the font size, by selecting from the drop-down list.
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The
tabBy default the background of the RSS panel is black with a lighting effect. However you can add an image source as the background and either choose to have that image centered in the panel or repeated by typing in details. In that case, you may even want to set a transparent background for your image, as shown below. Alternatively, just pick a colour from the colour palette and leave the Image source field blank.
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