Now that we have created our Web Part Zone, we will go ahead and add a Web Part inside the new zone. To do this, we simply click and drag the RSS Viewer Web Part from the Web Parts task pane into the RSS Feeds Web Part zone that we just created.
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It should be noted that the RSS Viewer Web Part is only available on MOSS. It is not included with WSS.
Once we have done this, the Web Part will display a message that it is not bound to a feed. We can remedy this by specifying an RSS feed for it to display.
Right-click on the Web Part we have just placed in the designer and select Web Part Properties from the shortcut menu. We are going to use our Web Part to display the contents of an interesting feed that Microsoft's SharePoint team publishes. To do this, all we need to do is add the following URL into the RSS Feed URL field:
http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-us/sharepoint/rss.xml
Once we have clicked OK, our Web Part is ready to display the contents of the feed on our...