RSS Feeds that Work-- Really!

Well, it took most of the weekend, but I finally got my RSS Feeds to work properly. I can't blame the feeds. It's the instruction that I got that was poor. It left out this WHOLE part about how EACH item has to be on a separate page in order for the feed to actually work.

Of course, that meant that all the content had once had on one page had to be split into 18 separate files. . . and formatted. . . and re-formatted (when I remembered something essential after all the copies were made). . . and re-formatted.

Actually, it went pretty well. I was happy to find that as soon as I uploaded everything, my feed reader pinged everything perfectly. That's good.

So now my articles are all REALLY available in a feed reader-- and new articles will be sent out whenever I add another.

Of course, I did try to be as efficient as possible, making a template and copying each section over. But, as I said, there were inevitably things I forgot. There is just nothing like editing 22 pages of html (the 18 articles, 2 article pages on my site and the 2 .xml RSS Feed pages) all at once. :-
All I want to know is, when am I ever going to get a real day off? I got all this work done on Sunday. . . my day off. Oh, well. I didn't get a chance to post a blog yesterday, either because I was uploading my latest article to all the submission sites. . . then doing other marketing, as well.

I push myself too hard. . . that's my trouble. I went to bed at 1:30 a.m. Sunday night (because of the RSS Feed problem), then worked from 7:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. last night. Throughout my entire career in computers (since 1983. . . I was only 18 when I started) two things have always been consistent: programming always takes 3-5 times as long as you anticipate and printer connections are always the biggest sore spot in working with computers-- even with HP.

Some things never change.