Comments activated on SOS site

Including Gravatar support. Please feel free to test ;-)

Playing with FeedBlitz, which automatically emails out updates. Same basic idea as RSS but without using RSS. Seems a bit glitchy at the moment though, so I've taken it down temporarily.

That's the idea. There's already RSS, but most people don't know how to use that yet. Tried a couple of addresses and it really didn't seem stable, so it's down at the moment. I may take another look later on.

The RSS runs fine. Hit the URL and you can one-click include it into just about evey major web RSS reader, as well as importing it into desktop clients. It's FeedBlitz, which should take copies of the feed and mail them out, which was causing problems - things like saying that email addresses were too long/invalid, or passwords not working. Never mind.

Did it give you an error message? Neither of the spam filters is claiming credit for eating it.

Anyhow, off to bed now. If anyone has any problems posting comments, make a note of exacly what happens and post in this thread.

Thanks ;-)

Remember folks, to have a nice avatar appear next to your comments, you need to sign up at Gravatar.

The banner:

You can download the file itself here - http://www.jennaglatzer.com/sos/sos-banner.gif - and just link it to http://www.storiesofstrength.com in your editor, no problem. The code's just there on the site to make it easier.

Sites in general:

These days, it's often best to start with a blog tool (even if you don't use it as a blog) and customise the theme around it. I'd recommend WordPress for small sites. In addition to all the blogging stuff, it has full support for individual pages on your site, with a nice interface for adding new content rather than having to actually open up templates and manually push words into them.

As for design, the single best thing you can do is learn to design with CSS. It's got some...uh....interesting quirks, but it's mostly logical and the premise is pretty easy - cut up your page into its individual segments and components and tell the computer what they're all going to look like. If you look here - http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp - you'll get a good primer.