Angie McKaig - E-Business Consultant and Entrepreneur

post assorted sweets: 2004.09.032004.09.03

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divya said on 2004.09.04

I really love your website and your comments about usability and design. The only regret is your RSS feeds are not as usable as your website. I remember somewhere you had written about how you found some RSS feeds annoying because of the incompleteness of the contents. Well, yours are too! I really hope you can do something about this, especially with assorted sweets which I really love!

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Angie said on 2004.09.04

Hi divya, and thanks for your comments!

I'm not sure exactly why you're not seeing 100% of my content in my RSS feed, but I do have a few theories:

1. I publish two different RSS feeds; a summary feed and a full post feed. The full post contains ALL the information (other than comments; I'll add that eventually) for each post, including the markup used in the post itself. If you're not subscribed to the correct feed, you're not going to see the full post. I offer the summary feed for the (odd few, in my opinion) people who don't want to have to see my entire post in their readers.

The URL for the full post feed:
http://www.angiemckaig.com/index-full.xml

The URL for the summary feed:
http://www.angiemckaig.com/index.xml

2. If you're using an older news reader, (or one that does not support the <content:encoded> field), even subscribing to index-full.xml won't solve your entire problem, as the RSS spec (as far as I understand) does not support HTML in the <description> field. So, I don't put it there. :) That means you'll see all the text, but it may run all together since the markup in each post is stripped from that field. If you're looking for a recommendation of a great newsreader, I highly recommend my addiction, Bloglines:
http://www.bloglines.com/

I hope that helps you to debug the problem! If you still have questions, please let me know.

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