Browsing Archive: September, 2009

Installing a customised RSS feedbutton (RSS chicklet) onto your site.

Posted by Kroocrew on Friday, September 18, 2009, In : Setting up a subscription 

Yola for example have an RSS chicklet available on any "blog" page and simply by clicking and dragging this chicklet onto your page, the RSS subscription button or chicklet is installed, configured and ready to go as soon as you re-publish (update) your site.

The chicklet supplied is a recommended standard RSS chicklet and is instantly recognisable. Fortunately the concentric three wave lines have been adopted by many RSS chicklet designers as the central theme for the myriad of cutomised icon...


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Support the new user subscribing to your RSS feed.

Posted by Kroocrew on Wednesday, September 9, 2009, In : Subscribing 

For the initiated it almost seems intuitive and a funny question t ask. For the vast majority of new users, subscribing to an RSS feed is confusing,frustrating and difficult to understand. 

It really is a round about process and poorly designed. Questions from a potential subscriber usually hit in two waves. "What is this RSS? "and "when I click the RSS button I get redirected back to the page" or "I can see a lot of unformatted text."

The process is not about to change in the immediate future ...
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