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Micardis Online Without Prescription, One of the best ways to unlock the potential of your blog is to cede as much control as possible to your readers. With that in mind, one of your goals ought to be to offer potential subscribers different (yet meaningful) ways to consume the content of your site.

Of course, simply offering an RSS feed is a huge step in the right direction.

But what if you've been blogging for a while, and now you realize that one RSS feed just isn't going to cut it anymore. By offering a couple of different feeds, you could really do your users a favor, and this would also allow you to make a more direct appeal to both your existing and potential audience.

What if I told you that this would likely result in more subscribers and more repeat visitors to your site, micardis Online Without Prescription.

When Two Feeds Are Better than One

After fleshing out my most recent re-design here at Pearsonified, I became even more focused on delivering useful, actionable content. I think I've done a pretty good job of that thus far, Cheapest celexa, but I also felt as though this method of writing was becoming too stifling.

Pearsonified on the Side — the most primary secondary feed on the planet!Inspired by Ben's asides at OpenSwitch, I decided to free myself to some degree by building my own asides here. Although I've never really seen them described as such, asides are a total luxury item for bloggers. Here's why:


  • Micardis Online Without Prescription, Some content just doesn't warrant a major entry, but perhaps you'd like it on your site nonetheless — asides to the rescue!

  • You can venture a little bit off-topic without interfering with your main stream of articles, which should be relatively focused.

Now that's great and all, but there's one major problem with asides.

You don't want to annoy your loyal subscribers by bombarding them with little tidbits that likely offer far less value than your regular, more thoughtful articles.

They can opt in to receive content like this, but under no circumstances would I recommend pushing it on them without their approval.

So, if you really want to implement asides and still offer your readers control over how they access your content, then you're going to need a separate feed to handle them.

Burn Baby Burn!

I've always learned best by following an example, Buy niaspan C.O.D, so that's what I'm offering here — an example of how I burnt two Feedburner feeds to handle my regular articles and my asides.

The default feed for a WordPress blog is constructed like this:


http://your_WordPress_location/feed/

Before I added asides, this was actually the URI that I used to burn my original Feedburner feed.

Unfortunately, once you decide to implement asides (assuming you use a special category to handle them, which is highly recommended), this default feed will no longer be adequate because it does not allow for the separation of articles and asides, micardis Online Without Prescription. Time for Plan B.

The good news here is that WordPress is flexible, and it will allow you to extract the exact feeds that you want with relative ease. Here's how it works. Oh, and you'll have to know the ID of your asides category — in this example, we'll assume the ID is 40.


Step 1 — Generate a feed for your primary articles

Micardis Online Without Prescription, If you want to generate a feed for your primary articles, then all you need to do is find a way to exclude the asides category from your feed. Thanks to the intelligent way feeds are constructed in WordPress, accomplishing this is easy, and you can use the URI below to generate the desired feed.


http://your_WordPress_location/index.php?feed=rss2&cat=-40

The keen observers among you will likely have noticed that the category ID is preceeded by a negative sign. This command generates a query (which produces a feed) but excludes all results from the category with an ID equal to 40.


Step 2 — Generate a separate feed for your asides

So, any ideas on how you might construct the feed for your asides, Discount celexa Online. Yeah, you already know where this is heading...We'll nix that negative sign!


http://your_WordPress_location/index.php?feed=rss2&cat=40


That's all there is to it.

Your only challenge now is to present these new options to your readers. Since you already know how much they enjoy being in control, something tells me they're going to appreciate your feed-burning wizardry :)

Oh, By the Way...

And lest I forget, Pearsonified now comes with two feeds for your viewing, reading, time-wasting, or corporate-dollar-burning pleasure:

I'm not going to stick to any hard and fast rules here, but I plan to use my asides primarily to:


  • Link out to excellent resources that I think you need to know about

  • Showcase bits of graphic (and typographic) design goodness — kinda like this

  • Make important announcements

  • Share funny or interesting stuff that's just hard to do otherwise

Ya dig. Order crestor Overnight Delivery, Subscribe already; I promise you'll enjoy it.

Update: After a few weeks of testing, I decided to roll all my feeds back into one primary feed. I've detailed the reasons for this move over here.
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Which is why it should come as no surprise that I would be positively incensed to find out that someone has blatantly ripped off my work and passed it off as his own. Sound ridiculous. It gets worse, Buy zyprexa Without A Prescription.

Taking someone else's work, modifying it slightly, and then claiming that you "created" it is stealing.

The guy who ripped off my work is stealing, plain and simple 1. Here's what he says:

...The theme you’re looking at now is my very own and I actually like it ravenously. That means I’d eat it. I call it Cleanline.

Cleanline. Buy zyprexa Without A Prescription, Are you kidding me. To be honest, the first time I read that, I did a double-take. My thoughts.

"Could anyone really be that stupid?" 2

Apparently so, and now I feel the need to explain myself so that others will understand exactly why it's so terrible to do what this jerk has done.

Where My Passion Meets the Pavement

There are only three "living" projects in which I retain ownership — Pearsonified, Tubetorial, and Cutline. I can say without hesitation that I put everything I have into my production on all of these sites, and the pride that I have in them is merely reflective of the hard work that I have put into them, Buy zyprexa Without A Prescription.

I love Cutline.

I believe so strongly in the project and in the idea of open source development that I made it free to the public (with a Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 2.5 License). On top of that, I continually update the theme and provide ongoing support at the Cutline demo site. The response has been amazing, and I am eternally grateful to everyone who uses the theme and respects what I created.

I am even more grateful to those of you out there who recognize the little details that I pored over at 2 am in an attempt to set Cutline apart from the crowd. Buy zyprexa Without A Prescription, From the bottom of my heart, thank you for using the theme and supporting me.

But, here's the deal.

Ultimately, Cutline is my baby. I built it from scratch, beginning with Photoshop mockups and ending with hours spent developing and refining XHTML and CSS.

I literally crafted every pixel and every bit of code in the theme. There's not a single detail I didn't attend to, and I could sit here and tell you every little thing there is to know about every aspect of Cutline, Buy zyprexa Without A Prescription.

And this is precisely why I am so angered — so absolutely livid — over the fact that someone would have the nerve to take my baby (which I give away for free!) and claim it as his own.

It's like painting a moustache on the Mona Lisa and saying, "Hey, zelnorm Without Prescription, check out my masterpiece. Yup, just painted 'er on a blank canvas, I did!"

And I guess you could follow that up by saying that you "like her ravenously."

The Bottom Line

Fortunately, at its core, the blogosphere is still very much an organic medium. Philanthropy and goodwill tend to be rewarded, and dishonesty and deceit are generally squashed (quite fervently, in some cases).

When people read things as ridiculous as this:

Buy zyprexa Without A Prescription, If you like it, let me know, for while it is not currently available for public consumption I’m toying with the idea of making it so. The feedback will determine.

They tend to take offense. And when you take it this far:

The main reason it’s not yet available is that it will require some more tweaking before it goes public. Otherwise, I know you PHP, XHTML and CSS studs/studettes out there will rip it apart. Well, maybe not. It does fully validate as transitional code, so…maybe I’m not as far off as I think.

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Be that as it may, I refuse to let this issue slide by without comment.

To the guy who ripped me off, I'm extremely disappointed. Order combivir Overnight Delivery, You've insulted me in a way that rubs me worse than just about anything else I can imagine.

Cutline is not only a reflection of things that I've learned and techniques that I've developed over the past year, but it is also reflective of something far more personal. Buy zyprexa Without A Prescription, It's a living, breathing piece of work that represents a choice that I made back in July of 2005 — a choice to change my life and create something better for myself.

It's a project that wouldn't have been possible without some courageous steps and a learning process that was both difficult and stressful at times (but always worth it).

So, when you stole my work, you stole my emotions, my passions, and essentially, you stole me.

Design, writing, problogging, and entrepreneuring — the four topics of your blog — are all rooted in character, which you should probably consider establishing if you hope to take your site any further.

Update: Owning up to a mistake counts as character in my book, and Charles has stepped up to the plate with a posted apology. Thanks!


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2 I found out about this whole thing because apparently, the guy was naïve enough to leave a comment at the Cutline support site. Smart.


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