WordPress feeds in XML
I have just thought about the feeds in XML for Google Reader or similar readers. I was not sure if WordPress has this feature or not. As it turn out, the feed is generated automatically and nothing needs to be done. The URL to the feed is /feed, so in my case this is http://www.bestresizer.com/feed/. Try it yourself!
The feed is useful for users who want to subscribe to your blog and for automatic notification of search engines of a new content on your blog.
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Samsung authorized service center let me down
Recently I wrote about the battery of my Android phone Samsung Galaxy i7500 and that it runs out in less than a day. I decided to take my phone to the authorized service center Ram2 in Ljubljana, but because it was before New Years, I called ahaed. Just to make sure that my trip into crowded shopping center wouldn’t be in vain. A nice voice explained to me that it’s no problem, I should bring it there and that they’ll let me know what’s wrong with my phone in one day. The girl at helpdesk explained that I won’t get a temporary phone because they’re all out. So far so good.
I went to the crowded shopping center and arrived at the service center on time, explained my battery problem to the guy at the counter and gave him my phone. He explained to me that I will get the first info on what’s wrong with the phone not the next day as promised over the phone, but after New Year, which was 6 days later (5 days later than promised over the phone). I was surprised with that answer and left. Of course, I took the phone with me – I can wait easier with my phone at home.
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All CMS systems use funny logic
I didn’t really like CMS (Content management system) systems for editing or creating web sites. I have created many web sites, but I have created all of them in pure HTML or PHP, without helper applications. I like it that way, because it gives me all control over the code and thus over the final result. This approach to web design, of course, takes time. More time then it should for a simple site, specially when you already have the graphic design. That’s why I have started to look at the CMs systems for small, not so important sites. I found Joomla, Drupal and several more PHP content management systems, but whichever I tried, none were good for my taste. I didn’t know why, but finaly I realized it.
The problem of all major CMS systems is that they’re big. They have the logic for building big sites. None of them is made for simple minimal sites. That’s why they have sections, categories, articles, separate menus, multimedia and so on. This could still be understandable, but the way to connect all those together and create a working site is almost never intuitive. The problem as I see it is that the user can’t create a content (”a page”) and put it in the main menu. No, the user has to create a section, create a category inside the section, write an article (which will later be “a page”), then create a menu, create a menu item, then create a menu item action, then go to special options and select the article from the list, then… Hell, I don’t remember any more. I had to buy a Joomla book and follow a step-by-step example. And apparently, I’ll do it again.
The important thing here is that every of this actions has tens of attributes so you really get lost easily. Even if you’re a professional web developer. Or even better, specially when you’re professional web developer and used to work with pure HTML.
By the way, a really good site for testing all kinds of CMS is http://www.opensourcecms.com/ – you can try all of them without the need for installation on your server. Great!
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