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Blogware Subscriptions
Its always bothered me that clicking on a "Syndicate" link takes a user
to a screen full of gibberish. While not perfect, I've always liked the
notion of making a subscription page available that provides potential
aggregators with a list of all feeds available and a link to them. I
liked it enough that we jacked the idea and implemented it in the
default template set for Blogware. The "uglyXML" option is still
available from the Layout Manager so Blogware publishers can choose how
they present their available feeds to their users.
Its not perfect - yet, so I'd appreciate hearing feedback how we can improve this particular piece - particularly from a UI perspective...
Its not perfect - yet, so I'd appreciate hearing feedback how we can improve this particular piece - particularly from a UI perspective...
See this post as it first appeared on Blogware.
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(name not saved), January 13, 2004
Did Joey share my wishlist with you.
I have a ton of stuff that I would like modified or changed in blogware.
I shall have to check out what my syndication options are now. I notice how before you could only provide one type of feed.
(name not saved), January 13, 2004
Is this the list you cc'ed me via mail? If yes, then many of the items you are looking for are already supported. I'd chatted with Joey and asked him to go over things with you to make sure that we were all on the same page. I have a habit of assuming that I know what other people are saying (when in fact they are saying something quite different ;)
(name not saved), January 13, 2004
Which begs the question: Where's the syndicate link on www.byte.org? Or am I just blind? I went looking for it to see what changed, and doggone it, I can't find it.
(name not saved), January 14, 2004
I replaced it with the "Subscribe" link at the top left of the page...
(name not saved), January 14, 2004
Ahh. See now, there's an example where breaking with established convention just confused the heck out of one of the cognoscenti.
That said, I like the list of available feeds a lot. I suspect this approach might kill aggregators that detect sites that have a "Syndicate" link. One of the neat things (and sometimes a pain in the butt) about NewzCrawler is that it will pop up when it detects that you're viewing a site with a syndication link on it.
Now, how do I access this on my blogware site? I wandered all over the Layout Manager yesterday and couldn't find anything that seemed to relate to your blog entry.
(name not saved), January 14, 2004
Joey is writing up the specific instructions, but all you really need to do is drop the "Email Notifications" component where you want it in the layout manager. I need to get Tom to change the name of this to "Subscriptions" so that users don't get confused ;)
(name not saved), January 16, 2004
not sure if it is the same list...
I have figured out how do do some things. There are other things in the software I'm not sure about.
I think i might try doing a book review over the weekend...
Maybe I'll send you the wishlist anyway just in case.