PHOTOGABBLE // BLOG POST

Feedburner and Powerflakes

January 23rd, 2007

As part of my continual aim to improve photogabble much to Soras delight I might add I have modified certain bits that she had recommended be changed. While doing so I discovered Feedburner, now don’t burn me I already knew of its existence I just never really checked it out much. However I saw their little widget thing on a couple of website’s and thought it might very well make life easier for me and let me know statistics of people who view my content directly from feed. So I signed up, could say it was the fact that  blogs I regularly check out; nostrich, jarkolicious, onestarrynight & x1brettstuff all use Feedburner which led to my decision.

So yeah if you currently use my old feed links then don’t worry I set up the sexy little .htaccess file to automatically deal with old feed traffic, mostly to save me having to change anything in the website’s template except for adding the widget

Powerflakes

Seeing as I visit my top five blogs every day to check if they have new stuff, it dawned on me that I should have a feed aggregator for my home page that would show up all my favorite subscribed website’s and let me know if there is any new posts. At first I tried Google home page but the design reminded me too much of 1999 all nasty and without style. In the end after looking about I decided upon Powerflakes. It has a nice clean design and I can fit three columns on my monitor with ease so I can show all my regular blogs feeds in one page, fantastic! It is now my homepage and so everytime I open a new tab I can quickly check for any updates.

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