While testing a new IE patch at work, I decided to implement a few changes to the site. Some I had been researching, like an RSS 2.0-compliant feed, and finding a way to list the most recent posts to the site (both articles and comments) so that that comments to older articles were not missed. Here's what I've done today:
Moved my WCYG Icecast stream reference from a RightBox to the Leftside Links.
Added a link to the standard Squishdot RDF feed that syndicates this site. Currently I'm only aware of Don syndicating my site's headlines.
Added Dean's RSS 2.0 DTML method to my site and put a link to it in the Lefthand Links. I got interested in this because I want to get myself listed on BlogStreet and other RSS aggregators. Thanks, Dean!
Removed the Moreover "Open Source News" RightBox (for now) - it was taking up a lot of space and they frequently have multiple links per article in their feed, which wastes space.
Added a RightBox that shows Recent Posts, so we can tell when someone's adding comments to articles that are no longer referred to on the main page. Thanks again to Dean for that bit of DTML code!
Comments
Any idea how it works? There doesn't seem to be a lot of documentation on that site, and I don't seem to understand some of the terms like blogrolling...
Posted by: Don | April 24, 2003 10:44 AM
Also, their RSS Autodetection didn't find the RSS feed on my site. I don't know what path it's looking for. The RSS 2.0 sites I've seen use <home>/rss.xml.
I'll let you know if I show up on BlogStreet or if I find a better aggregator.
Posted by: Alex | April 24, 2003 8:25 PM
Posted by: Dean | April 27, 2003 12:45 PM