Core elements of RSS

Several examples and primers for RSS 2.0 syndication have appeared over the past few days, which makes the job of ...

What to do about RDF

Much of the controversy around RSS 2.0 derives from its relationship to another specification, RDF. Deciding what to do ...

The bare necessities of RSS

Now that UserLand has formalized its specification for RSS 2.0, I have started thinking through what that means for ...

Using HitBox traffic analysis with Blogger

There are many reasons for analyzing traffic to your website: among them, finding out which sites are sending you ...

Giving visitors a choice

Some visitors may want to comment in private, rather than having their remarks instantly published online, as shown in ...

Publishing comments online

The next step in this series shows how to publish visitor comments on your website, using hosted web service modules ...

Saving data from a form

Having set up a form to collect visitor comments (or any other type of information, for that matter), saving the ...

Easier forms, more powerful features

Xara Online has added more powerful features and labor-saving enhancements to its modules, making it even easier to set ...

Moreover spikes its feed

Moreover.com appears to have shut down the keyword filtering capability I was using to include general web services ...

Homepage usability

Weblogs don't work well as home pages, because they contain too much information, laid out inefficiently. That's why I ...

Sending an automated email response

The preparation that went into setting up a form starts to pay off once you begin adding extra features to your ...

Collecting visitor comments

This item is the first in a series that explains how I built the commenting system for the Loosely Coupled website, ...

Just when you don't need an outage ...

Planned maintenance took Loosely Coupled's main server offline for nearly four hours this morning. As luck would have ...

Minor changes to Pro2rss

Two small notes for users of the current version (0.95) or earlier of Pro2rss: I had a glitch the other day using the ...

Which blog is best for business?

Choosing between Blogger Pro and Radio Userland, I came down in favor of Blogger for this weblog. It was a difficult ...

Weblog comments on test

A new weblog commenting system went live on this weblog today. It will be on test for a day or two while I tidy up one ...

An easy way to create thumbnail images

Even though a picture can be worth a thousand words, you don't always have that much room to fit one in — and ...

Creating a weekly email newsletter and archive

By setting up a simple Xara Modules database and companion modules, it's been very easy to create a self-updating index ...

Database-driven features that work on any website

Adding forms and dynamic lists to a website doesn't have to require complex programming skills. There's been no ...

Content editing without HTML

It's often desirable to edit or add new pages without having to go back to the original HTML, especially when you want ...