The death of your site
I wrote a post yesterday about the death of the homepage. This post is about the death of your site.
The death of the homepage
Your homepage used to be the first page that everyone visited first. There was no other way to find your stories. But now your homepage's importance is gone.
A very boring demo
The beauty of Feed.Us makes this demo very boring. And that's a good thing.
Opps, our RSS feed died
Looks like we killed our Feedburner feed. Now it's fixed.
Feed.Us is a Ruby on Rails CMS
Rails is now included in Feed.Us's list of supported platforms.
Packers news widget
We love the Packers out here (eh). Now you can show our love on your site with this handy little Packers News Widget.
Getting started with Feed.Us
What to do to get started with Feed.Us - all via video help.
Google Docs CMS
I've always thought that Google's "Google Docs" would make an excellent CMS. Simple to use and has terrific WYSIWYG editing abilities. The only problem is that Google doesn't host my sites. Now Feed.Us works with Google Docs - it's the perfect Google Docs CMS solution.
How Feed.Us uses XHTML, XML, CSS, and XSLT to deliver your content
Feed.us uses w3c standard technologies to handle your content distribution and styling.
Madison Record news widget
The Madison Record is using Feed.Us to make javascript news widgets.
Recent Feed.Us syndication projects
Feed.Us is - as we're sure you're already so aware - a great CMS. But did you know!? It's also a syndication platform.
Update Facebook and Twitter via Feed.Us
Facebook & Twitter are great sources of pageviews for publications/blogs.
Feed your news to the Kindle via Feed.Us
We all enjoyed our Kindles over the holiday. Now we need more publishers to sell their content on the Kindle. And Feed.Us can help.
Use Windows Live Writer with Feed.Us
A quick help video to show you how to setup Windows Live Writer for use with your Feed.Us powered Websites.
Why should developers consider Feed.Us?
We dined at Zaca Tacos again last week. I asked John why developers should consider using Feed.Us in their applications and website.
Use Word, email or a blog to update your website via Feed.Us
Use Word, email or a blog to update your website via Feed.Us.
Feed.Us intro video
Here's a quick (less than 4 minutes) video of me setting up Feed.Us on a new site FeedUsDemo.com.
Why we do what we do
I spent most of the day creating a new site for a local community organization. Why do I spend time creating sites with Feed.Us?
Feed.Us loves Zaca Tacos
Watch the zaca taco demo video.
Publish everywhere with Feed.Us
While we finish our new interface, we are also working on Facebook and Kindle integration.
A quick tour of the new Feed.Us interface
Here's a 3 minute tour of the new Feed.Us interface.
Feed.Us featured on the Thirsty Developer Podcast
Syndicating news articles using Feed.Us
We're working with a customers who syndicates news stories across several newspaper partners.
Podcasting, MP3 storage for web radio shows
We get a lot of queries about using Feed.Us to get radio shows online. Here are some tips.
You hate Feed.Us, what do you do?
You try out Feed.Us and you end up hating it. What do you do?
Recent Feed.Us beta sites
We have enjoyed working with some new beta customers. Here's a list of some new sites powered by Feed.Us.
The Feed.Us "detail" page
I'm going to try to explain our dynamic functionality we call "the detail page". Aka Permalinking.
Little things cause big problems in AJAX.NET - Subtitle: asp:ControlName is not a known element or RTFM
asp:ControlName is not a known element. Silly problems with AJAX.Net
Feed.Us is just for your site's CONTENT
We don't care about your site's template. Just your content: your news, recipes, and event calendars.
Some tips for using Web analytics services
We've been using web analytics software for quite some time. We thought we'd share some tips for folks who are new to the game.
Feed.Us free version launching soon
We've been changing that "coming to..." text at the top of this page several times. Very exciting... we're getting close to launching our first public version of Feed.Us.
New logo
We're working on a new logo. Any help/thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
More design thoughts: create newsletters for your audience
Recently my favorite email newsletter's design went from elegant to horrible. It made me realize that we should comment about the dying (dead?) art of email newsletters.
More on iPhone and iPod Touch website design
So we seem to be stuck on this topic: more iPhone design observations.
Designing a news site for the iPhone
We're making an iPhone version of a demo and we thought we'd share a few things.
So why the heck did we pick .NET?
We're a tad defensive about this subject. But hey, people scoff when we tell them Feed.Us was built on .Net. This is why we made the decision.
CMS Wire interviews Feed.Us's Rick Stratton
CMS Wire's Jason Campbell sat down with Feed.Us's Rick Stratton.
What the...?
You've gotta love the CMS "solution provider" techno-babble.
More on Feed.Us sections
Soon you won't have to hack-the-crap out of Movable Type, Word Press or Drupal.
Are you prepared for the mobile web?
More evidence to support our theory that 2008 is the year of the mobile web.
CDN vs. CDP
What's the difference between a Content Delivery Network and a Content Delivery Platform?
More thoughts on XSL, CSS and Feed.Us
I am not a programmer nor do I play one on TV. That's why CSS and XSL are powerful ingredients of Feed.Us.
How do I make an RSS feed?
Yes, it's pretty simple to make a RSS feed using Feed.Us. In fact, you can make a ton of them quite easily. But what do you do if you don't use Feed.Us, don't have a CMS that makes it simple and don't have a developer? Here's a hack that will get it done.
Top reasons NOT to use Feed.Us
We've done some serious research and prepared a list of excuses for you!
Quick screen cast video about using Feed.Us
We're making a series of help videos for Feed.Us. This first one is a primer on how to add Feed.Us to your site.
Making a mobile site (using Feed.Us, of course)
Part 2 in the series about mobile browsing. This time we offer some suggestions and links for creating a mobile website.
2008 is the year of the mobile web
Yeah, the mobile web has been around for a long time. It's been active, but not generally accepted. But we here at the Feed.Us headquarters are witnessing a sudden explosion of mobile browsing. Finally, worlds are colliding (and George is getting upset!)
jsp and php versions of Feed.Us
Just a quick note to let you know that Feed.Us now works with .php and .jsp sites (as well as .asp). Asp.net coming soon.
Promote your site or blog using Twitter
Auto-publish your articles to mobile users using Feed.Us, Twitterfeed and Twitter.
XSL and CSS
XSL is a main ingredient in Feed.Us. Find out more about this underappreciated but very capable W3C technology.
Customer highlight: WNS-Hockey.com
The folks at Wisconsin high school hockey team WNS Hockey used Feed.Us to create a great hockey website.
Contextual Ad Networks part 3: Maximizing clicks
Next installment of my monetize-your-domain series. How do you make people click on the contextual ads?
SEO basics for folks who are SEO averse
Here are a few, basic, often neglected SEO tips to remember.
RSS importing now working
The new RSS Importing is now functional. 'Pull' content from other sources and then 'push' all of it to any other site.
RSS importing update
RSS importing is almost ready.
Contextual ad network tips, part 2.
Over the past few weeks, I've experimented with the contextual ad networks. I've just gone back and forth between Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher's Network. In my experience, Google is way better. However, there's a reason to use both networks - and you probably won't guess why.
Setup Feed.Us on Godaddy
Feed.Us was made to work on any servers - especially cheap hosting. Here is how to setup Godaddy to work with Feed.Us.
Making money with domains and contextual ad networks, part 1.
This is part 1 of a 3 part post regarding making money with domains. It's for folks who own domains and the domain just sit there in your godaddy/netsol/register.com account.
Long time no talk
An update on Feed.Us...
Choosing an ad system
One of our last large projects, before Feed.Us, was to create an ad network for a medium sized daily newspaper. Our original intention was to integrate an existing ad system for the customer. Unfortunately there aren't many options. Here's what we found...
Try a web publishing application
These days, you don't need someone to custom make you some sort of application. Whether you're big or small, there seems to be a web software developer making an application that might fit your needs.
If you're a designer, you should love CSS
If you know a little about html coding and website design, then you're probably a little scared of CSS. You should learn to love CSS because it's like a gift from the design gods.
HTML newsletters in a spam-filled world
Now that Spam has completely ruined email - how do you make a HTML newsletter?
Add videos to your site
Some tips about getting your video from your camera to your website.
RSS in and RSS out
Feed.Us loves RSS.
FeedUs on CSS
Feed.Us was built to utilize the wonders of CSS.
Cheap hosting
Cheap hosting is one of the reasons we started Feed.Us.
Now with comments
Combine Feed.Us with Disqus...
Coming Soon: Feed.Us sections
For the past couple months, we've been hard at work at one of the last "beta" upgrades on Feed.Us. Once we get this one out there, we're going to start opening Feed.Us up. (We'll also have to get some real servers in a real hosting facility).
There's a Feed.Us in the basement
We've built Feed.Us in such a way that it can handle any amount of traffic that your web host can handle.
Feed.Us is live on these great sites
Sites using Feed.Us is currently pushing 40 and over 25,000 monthly pageviews.