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Vorpal 0.5 – A Day Late

I think the SuperBowl counts as a legitimate distraction, so I’m using it as an excuse for not meeting my self-imposed deadline of Sunday for these changes.

I’m not 100% convinced I like the blockquotes I came up with, but they are an improvement and functional.

Adding the social network links was simple EXCEPT for Facebook giving me a ridiculous run around.  It is pretty easy to come up with the URL linking to your public search profile; I found it on the Badges page.  What is more difficult to figure out is that my search listing was not activated, so I kept getting 404s on the link.  Once I finally found the damn checkbox buried in the privacy controls the whole thing worked fine.

I decided to use FeedBurner despite some recent hiccups with the service.  I’ve never had an issue with it, and the plug-ins are out there to use easily.  You can follow Jabberwocky Design’s feed here; I’m lumping everything together for the time being, but I might spllit into at least two feeds in the near future.  In addition I’m looking at Twitme to syndicate posts directly to Twitter.  This post will test that as well.

So with that, I think I can call this Vorpal 0.5.  I still need to fix the IE issues, but those should be quick to do, and IE is terrible anyways.  I’ve still got some big things to fix here, but I think things are on the mark as far as syndication and social-ness are concerned.

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