Webmaster Tips

Back in 2005, I purchased shared server space from a well-known hosting company. In an attempt to “save” money, I paid for two years up front, and $268 later, I had my first real home on the Web.
Two short months after that, I came to the harsh realization that my server package was completely inadequate [...]

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If you’re like me, then you obsess over getting things like images, blockquotes, and lists to display “just right” on your Web site. Through intelligent use of CSS, you can exercise absolute control over your layout, presenting the reader with articles so rich with style that Donatella Versace would be jealous.

Unfortunately, an ever-growing percentage of your readers are never going to see your code-wrangling handiwork, because they prefer to read articles through a feed reader like Google Reader or Bloglines. To make matters worse, you have almost no control over the way your posts will display across the various readers. You can’t use your in-site CSS styles, and – this is the biggest sin of all – images are often displayed inline with text.

The horror.

It’s true… ugly feeds can happen to good people. Check out what I mean in the figure below.

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Adding uniquely-styled Flickr photo streams to your blog is easy, and it’s just another thing you can leverage to make your blog stand out among the crowd. Today, my goal is simply to walk you through the process of creating your very own photo stream so that you can end up with something like this:

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