I know I should have spent the time on Rails but I felt like doing something a little different. So I added a little bit of coding so that the RSS feed link only shows on pages where it’s relevant–the home page, single post pages, and blog archive pages–and put a link labeled subscribe next to it.
There’s something a little more elegant to it, I think: clicking the subscribe link opens a block in place with a list of links to subscribe to BillSaysThis in the more popular feedreaders (that is, those that have the capability) using JavaScript. Of course, there’s a close the block link at the bottom to restore the pristine page state.
If there’s any interest I’ll make the HTML, JavaScript and image files available; just ask.
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