If you are currently providing summary articles in your site or blog’s RSS feed, you may want to consider switching to full-text. As RSS applications become more sophisticated and average readers become more discerning and demanding, it may be time to reconsider how best to use this valuable tool. Below are the top reasons for using full-text articles, the objections that are typically raised against full-text, and also some exceptions. [...]
Yet again I have retooled the web site–with more plans down the line. Today’s exercise was one in which I took the latest blog posts and put them in their own section, instead of having them located on the home page. It was incredibly easy using built-in Wordpress settings and some of the theme options for Atahualpa. It makes the site feel more like a, well, a site, and less like just a blog. It took all of thirty minutes. [...]
Well, after many hours of fiddling with plugins, deactivating them, deleting them, etc. and after chmod-ing my various directories through ssh (thank you, fabulous husband and unix king) to 777 (I really hate that, by the way), and then chmod-ing them back again (phew!), and then resetting the Wordpress theme back to the default Kubrick, I was about to give up and just do a complete re-install of Wordpress 2.8.4. [...]
As I awaited word from the editor at Simon & Schuster regarding my mighty tome, I decided to create what is today called an online platform, but at the time was just a web site, when blogs didn’t exist. It wasn’t something I was doing just for fun, although I did enjoy it. Creating a web site was one of things that I had said I would do in my proposal as part of my promotion and marketing plan. [...]