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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Web Feeds, RSS and a whole lotta learning

Hi,
Today I am trying to give my readers as many ways to subscribe to my blog as possible. There are a couple of ways:
1) Using web feeds: This area is so complex to me at the moment I am yet to fully wrap my head around it, however some great resources that have helped my layman mind at least get to a point where I can use them is:
a) Wikipedia: For an overall understanding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feeds
b) Problogger: As always they have phenomenal tips on its practical application. Make sure you watch the video that tries to demistify web feeds, its pretty creative http://www.problogger.net/what-is-rss
c) Skinny Jeans: Another great site for overall simplified (or as they call it, explaining it 'the Oprah way') description of web feeding http://cravingideas.blogs.com/backinskinnyjeans/2006/09/how_to_explain_.html
d) Feedburner: I have started playing around with it but so far it seems that this is THE SITE you want to go to if you want people to subscribe to your blog, we'll see how it all goes.
e) Beta Blogger for Dummies:For an explanation of how to do it the HTML way please refer to: http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/02/feedburner-feed-subscribe-icon-below.html. This method seemed to long and complex for me and I am currently trying out the Feedburner site that explains how to maximize Feedburner use on your blog:
f) Quick start for bloggers from Feedburner: http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/help/blogger_quickstart