What is feedburner and rss???

[Spice Islands]

http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/blogs;jsessionid=AF6B1BF105AAA3AF388C8188FB486B48. fb1

Why can't these people write in plain English? :tongue

What's it all about and would it increase traffic anyway???

[Medievalist]

http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/blogs;jsessionid=AF6B1BF105AAA3AF388C8188FB486B48. fb1

Why can't these people write in plain English? :tongue

What's it all about and would it increase traffic anyway???

More people would possibly read your blog, yes, but it would not show in your stats.

Rss is a way of presenting your blog so that your posts notify special servers that the blog has been updated, and, that allows readers to read your blog only when there's something new.

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/05/165927.php

http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/

http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.shtml

[JulieB]

The Feedburner folks tend to write in marketingspeak, but it is a useful service.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. There are some cool things you can do with RSS, but it may depend on what your blog hosting service offers. Click on my blog link below. I offer two feeds and you can look at them via Feedburner. The short feed just gives a title and summary, and I use a Feedburner feature to add my latest Flickr picture. The full feed contains the entire entry complete with pictures.

Feedburner subscribers generally get a daily e-mail update that shows which blogs (or other content) they watch has been updated. If the subscriber gets my full feed, then it's all right there in e-mail. If they get the short feed, then they need to click on a link to go to my site to read the entire entry.

Click on the RSS links to see what a raw feed looks like. Most blogging services create that for you. The help section of your blogging service should show you how to get started with RSS.

RSS isn't just for blogs. You can watch the latest headlines from your favorite news sites or keep an eye on podcasts that interest you.

[Spice Islands]

More people would possibly read your blog, yes, but it would not show in your stats.

Rss is a way of presenting your blog so that your posts notify special servers that the blog has been updated, and, that allows readers to read your blog only when there's something new.

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/05/165927.php

http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/

http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.shtml

That's the type of thing I'm after :D

[Spice Islands]

Julie

As a dedicated beer supper, well gulper, I liked your bit about pubs! I've been in the Sherlock and the Hofbrauhaus

I'm currently knocking up a site about pubs in Asia. This is my second attempt, the first one fell apart among a series of bad links, poor cash flow and over zealous research! You try telling your partner you're off to Singapore to visit some pubs and no we can't afford a new DVD player

Anyway the new version will aslo have less images, I felt daft taking pictures inside and outside and it takes up too much n=bandwith!

www.pubcrawlasia.com

I'm going to start pluging it next month but here's a sneak preview!

[JulieB]

Ah, I love pubs! I'm off the beer with my current diet, but I can go back sparingly in a week or so. I'm looking at a new set of knees if I don't loose some weight, so for now I'll be content with a sip from whatver my husband is drinking!

The research for that site must be tough! ;-)

The site looks good, but you may want to reconsider the animated gif images. They're a bit distracting. As for images, have you considered using thumbnails that link to larger images? That will considerably speed up the page load time.

[Spice Islands]

Julie

This is the second effort. First time rose to over 600 pages with matching images and got out of hand.
The animations are a feeble attempt at rating pubs a la Michelin in Soppy's rather hapless way

[Medievalist]

Julie

This is the second effort. First time rose to over 600 pages with matching images and got out of hand.
The animations are a feeble attempt at rating pubs a la Michelin in Soppy's rather hapless way

That's a neat idea, but think about storing the images on Flickr, and just linking to them on your site.