I activated FeedBurner for my feed. It's really Sweet with all of the cool features they have!
I added lots of tweaks to my feed including the most important one MyBrand. It makes it possible to keep your url as the source of your feed while it still being a feedburner feed. Your readers will never know the difference! And since I have blog using Subtext that support FeedBurner simply through configuration it was real easy to set it up. The one thing that had me puzzled for a while was that access to the MyBrand feature was not from the feed under settings at FeedBurner. It resided instead under account settings. When I found it I was pleasantly surprised again since I fortunately have control over my subdomains from my domainhoster: Space2U. All I had to do was set up a CNAME pointer from feeds.noop.se to point to feeds.feedburner.com and I was all set. Subtext takes care of the site rendering, the CNAME pointer takes care of redirection and the settings at FeedBuner takes care of the rest. It's all sweet.
Now there are a few tweeks to make at your own site too. Since I "closet host" this was no problem either. Keith Elder made it easy to just go in and add FeedBurner feed flare to your feed: How To Add Feedburner FeedFlare to Your SubText Blog but there was one more place I wanted to tweak. When you click on one single post or for that matter someone links to one of your posts online and someone clicks into it. They end up at the ViewPost control of your skin. Keith did not in his description add the FeedBurner scripts to this control. And indeed when I click into as post at his site I note that his FeedFlare does not show up there. It does show up at his regular page as it should. I just thought it would be cool if it showed up everywhere at the bottom of a post.
Here's how to put the script at your ViewPost.ascx page. I simply used the Request.Url:
<div class="info">
<script src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/yuourfeednamehere?i=<%=Request.Url%>"
type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" ></script>
</div>
Now you know how to do it too. It's real easy! Go do it! ;~)
Cheers,
/Magnus
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posted @ Saturday, August 30, 2008 11:24 PM