In trying to help someone out today I realized that the blogger.com system does not let you directly change a blog’s header tags, thus it is difficult to replace the native Blogger RSS feed URL with a Feedburner feed URL for people who use a bookmarklet or other means of autodiscovery to subscribe to your blog. Low and behold the fantastic Feedburner forums hold the answer. It’s kind of a wacky work around, but it looks like it should work.
Why is this important? Because, though Feedburner offers many great features, keeping track of the number of RSS subscribers you have is the most important. Don’t sacrifice the satisfaction of seeing your subscribers grow to a certain number just because it’s a struggle to plop in some code.
I’m going to be working on a review of various blogging software systems this week and one of the things the organization I’m doing it for has asked me to evaluate is how easy each of these systems makes it to change your blog’s template. Direct access to the HTML code is so important. Many systems give you an easy-to use interface that stands between you and the code. While it might seem nice to have, with practice your use of your own blog can grow more sophisticated and it’s important to be able to easily access the template yourself. Best I’ve seen is probably WordPress. Many bad options here. Typepad is not easy to work with on this front, but it’s easier than some options.
