Taking time
Posted by Jowlstar on Feb 24, 2005
If indeed it is true I guess maybe, I should take some pictures of stuff and post it and redo my logo at my site. The Logo Creater program ChefTD has is very useful.
Timely comment responses are important
Posted by ChefTD on Feb 24, 2005
Was just taking a look at Jowl’s blog entry on his goals for 2005: My goal for this site and notices a series of comments and follow-up comments with no answer.
On our next show we’re going to discuss a daily routine for checking for comments and moderating them. It doesn’t do much good to have moderated comments if they aren’t approved or responding to. That can actually kill interest in a website because people think they are being ignored.
We’ll try and post this separately but tomorrow’s Webmaster Cookbook #28 has been postponed until Friday March 4, 2005, there will not be a live show tomorrow. I have a number of project deadlines facing me that I’m behind on and need to spend the time working on that. Jowl and I will be back next Friday live again, so feel free to listen to a prior podcast in our absence.
Maybe Jowl can take advantage of this time to take some more pictures of the town and to catch up on replying to comments left on the blog.
Example of RSS feed redirection
Posted by ChefTD on Feb 24, 2005
Last night we added Feedburner back to orting.com. When we upgraded from version 1.2xx to 1.5 of Wordpress during show #27, we neglected to change the feeds to Feedburner. That site shows using Feedburner with a website where the feeds are pointing to Feedburner.
But what if you don’t want to point subscribers directly to Feedburner? Some webmasters are concerned that what if Feedburner goes down, then your subscribers won’t get the RSS feeds, right? This is correct, but there is a solution on Feedburner’s forums.
EXAMPLE.
If you look at the feeds here, they appear to go to Webmaster Cookbook, but they are being redirected via htaccess to Feedburner. This is an example of redirecting the feeds behind the scenes. If you click through from Internet Explorer the feed looks like crap, btw, but if you subscribe to it in an RSS aggregator or use Firefox to click through then you’ll get a nice clean page with instructions about how to subscribe.