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Yup, that's a whole lotta back end there. More to come from the Sumo ring in the coming days.

The photo is supposed to segue neatly into the theme of back ends, and particularly website back ends. I've been tinkering around with the frangipani back end a bit, and discovered a great little service called feedburner which helps you track your RSS feed readership and edit your feed styles a little. I have often wondered how many people use RSS feeds to read frangipani, so this'll be an interesting experiment. So this post will be the first to test the new services here. If you do use a reader, the address has changed so could you please update the address in your readers : http://feeds.feedburner.com/FrangipaniPhotoblog

The weekend will be busy: off to see the awesome lineup at the Canada Wet show (Featuring Broken Social Scene, The Dears, Death From Above 1979, Metric, and Stars) on Saturday night, and of course Design Fest.

frangipani wrote this on May 13, 2005 12:47 PM

Due to the proliferation of comment spam, I've closed comments on all older entries. If you would like to leave a comment for this post, please email me directly at martine {at} frangipani {dot} info and I'll add it manually. Thank you and sorry for any inconvience caused.

mattymcg said:

What you talkin' bout Frangipani? I'm a fan of the feed. And there aint no right sidebar on this page. Nor is there a little orange button. Just gimme a link and I'll update already!

On May 13, 2005 9:48 PM,

frangipani

said:

Mark, (^o~)!

Matty, I'm a fan of the feed too, actually - I use bloglines. I have updated my entry so the new address is linked to from the post. But donchu wanna see the pretty blue of my page?

Funny, we spend all this time making our pages look pretty for visitors but half of them don't even see them.

On May 14, 2005 1:45 AM,

daveeeee said:

Thanks for the update. Some site don't even bother to notice their feed readers of a feed change :(

Bloglines user here

On May 14, 2005 3:27 AM,

mattymcg said:

By the way Martine adding the following to your .htaccess will redirect anyone's feed aggregator automatically. Probably worth putting in!

Redirect index.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/FrangipaniPhotoblog

On May 14, 2005 11:50 PM,

frangipani

said:

thanks matty - i put the code in my htaccess but strangely, on explorer, the code actually shows on the screen when viewers look at the blog page. really sucks. what can i do. i might email my tech guys.

On May 17, 2005 2:01 PM,

mattymcg said:

Glad you got it working! Now for my next request... any idea how to include your photo(s) in the feed snippet? This would be cool as at the moment we just get the text. And you know, this is a photoblog after all... It might be dead easy and I haven't looked into it, but will let you know if I get the chance.

On May 18, 2005 10:17 PM,

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