in a default feedburner set you your feed is at feeds.feedburner.com/yourFeedName, thats all well and good but what if you want to leave feedburner at a later date, maybe you’ve developed your own feedtracking service or you’ve decided to go without… you carn’t change that feed and you’ve lost all those subscribers…

When Google bought feedburner they made all the “pro” features completely free the best one of these has to be myBrand with a simple DNS entry you can have feeds.yourdomain.com/yourFeedName and have complete control over the links and the subscribers and if you feel at a later date you want to leave… you just create that subdomain and 301 people to the new url (which I also hope is on your domain name)

The We I mention are Paul Stanton, Ryan Taylor, Deb Bassett and of course ME!..

We had a good response yesterday from the preshow which was just to get Stanton and Taylor used to talking via a podcast and will be recording the next one… soonish

The real one launches in Jan with lots and lots of shiney (read: crappy) video until we can afford some decent stuff

At the moment theres a lot of stuff happening around here, I have a lot of personal sites that really need some attention and work has started to get really busy, I’ve tried not to talk about Stickyeyes on here much because I know the boss and other staff members take a peek every now and then and really didn’t want to put my foot in it (and I came close with my silly seo post ), but when the new site finally launches there might be some of the things I would publish on here going onto there, (I’m writing a post at the moment on the best wordpress SEO plugins that I use).

I’m at this point when I get home that I have so many things to do that I’m not quite sure what to work on first, I’m looking at starting a new podcast, I have 3 site ideas that are underway but need some cash to get coded and tarted up and a fe w other bits and bobs to do, I am hopeful that my order of two flat screen 17″ monitors will arrive tomorrow and they will be great to do work on, (dual monitors increase productivity, I know your reading this Craig )

Heres a few I found but none of them I really Like to be honest..

http://dev.portalzine.de/index?/Horizontal_Accordion–print

This is a nice effect but it doesn’t seem to work locally, it really does look like the xbox 360 menu bar but it wasn’t the effect I was going for..

http://www.nyokiglitter.com/tutorials/horizontal.html

This menu is not as smooth as I would like and I don’t like the fact the text overflows for a couple of seconds in mid transision

http://www.arbyte.net/f4/

this seems the one I am leaning to at the moment but I’m going to need to look at the code a bit more..

Whilst we are on the subject most of these scripts use moo.fx or prototype… I’ve found these communities ( mainly the prototype community )… elitist and unhelpful.. whilst visiting the IRC room recently I was kicked out because I asked about an accordion script I was developing, the reason was that they had too many queries on accordion and were sick of them, surely if your getting too many queries about a bit of your code, you might need to… work on it or at least work on the explanation and documentation instead of ignoring people’s questions..

And please don’t get me wrong the examples above are good examples of an accordion and the developers did a good job, I’m just astounded at the lack of examples compared to every other menu/navigation type javascript ever made..

I’ve been writing this last one for an hour, I’m on tot he bit where I look at there site and make suggestions as to why they  are having problems or how they can improve, these thoughts are stuck in a document which is “sales up” by our sales executive and sent off to the client…

I’ve been thinking, some clients have no idea what SEO is or anything about it, so they are taking my word as..well bible… I could probably write whatever I want in here and they would believe it to a certain extent, I wouldn’t do that of course but it was a funny thought ; I had a few ideas though

• Google has taking a disliking to the letter L this month, if you have more than 4 occurances of the letter L this will hurt your rankings, for visibility we recommend using the capital I and the underscore for that effect I_, we are assured by Google this is only a temporary measure to stop spam
• MSN and Yahoo have both given indications that if you link to them without linking to Google they will give you a slightly higher ranking than you had before as a way of saying thank you.
• The terms you are trying to rank for only have a small amount of search traffic going towards them, try creating pages that optimise for such terms as “sex”, “viagra” and “rock and roll” whilst these search terms are unrelated you will bring in lots of traffic and are sure to convert at least some of them.

I’m looking for ideas and links to add to the site so if you have any then feel free to reply to this post.