Every website has this little orange thingie called rss. Most new bloggers (as I am) don’t really know what it does so they don’t click on this. RSS stands for “really simple syndication”, meaning, you can syndicate the content (posts) of a site by simply clicking on that yellow-orange thingie. The reader may view all the posts in just a single page via an aggregator (i use livebookmarks). It’s like a real newspaper subscription.

I’ve found a way for readers to feel more hyped, or at least more at ease with subscribing to my feeds. Read on…

The yellow-orange thinge icon corresponds to a url unique to your site. It’s usually “www.yoursite.com/feed”, but it could also be a custom one, created by feedburner and other aggregators. Why do you want people to subscribe? Simply because you want loyal readers. While these subscribers don’t need to visit your site anymore (and get deprived of viewing your cute blog accesories and ads), you are ensured that they are reading what your write, and getting addicted by the minute.

I had the idea that people will click my RSS feed icon more if it were packaged in an icon that shows off my personality. Here I go again with the personalization mantra. Lol.

You can see my personalized rss feeder live in my other blog, evilwoobie. It looks like this in my sidebar:

My photo niche has always been photobucket, and thus I use the photobucket code for this pic as my example. Below every image stored in your album are options on how you wish to embed or use that photo anywhere in the web. There’s an image code, an HTML code, a direct URL code and etc. For this purpose we need the HTML code.

This photo’s html tag in photobucket is the following:

<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/

albums/<member number>/<albumname>/<photo name>.jpg" 

border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>

You simply replace the “http://photobucket.com” at the very start of the HTML code with your rss URL, in my case “http://evilwoobie.com/feed” and you can now embed that rss-feeder.photo anywhere in your site, by editing your html/php templates.

Voila! Your personalized feeder.