I posted yesterday about an RSS event I am organising and in the comments for that post I mentioned Dave Winer’s suggestion that we should use a “Subscribe” button on our blogs instead of “RSS” or “XML”
FrankP read that comment and decided to run with that suggestion – Frank created a cool little white on orange Subscribe button (see below)
and I have replaced my XML button with Frank’s new Subscribe button – I advise all bloggers to do the same and in Dave’s words:
It’s the old second-mover thing, the second one has the power to make a standard. So let’s make a standard.
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18 responses to “Subscribe button”
I’m actually still humming and hawing on this one…
Now you tell me!
ok… here’s my latest thoughts on RSS buttons and standards etc!
I have put together a couple of simple buttons as well, free for anyone to use.
http://www.spoiltchild.com/spoilt/
However i am wondering if there should be a crossover button. One that still has the “RSS” term on it for existing users and also has the accompanying “Web feed” term beside it?
Tom
You might want to fix the url. It’s giving a 404
Alan – Where are the buttons??
On the right hand column. A refresh might be needed if you visited the site lately.
Ah. I saw that, but as you said “a couple” I presumed there were more 🙂
Michele, they are on the right hand side – not blogged about, just sitting there all functional and stuff. Some people blab about it (me) and others just go and f*ckin do it (Alan) I guess 😉
Nicely done Alan.
Michele – the main subscribe button and the ‘?’ button for those who don’t know what it is.
As amatter of interest Alan, did you always have a help button? It makes loads of sense, I just haven’t seen it too much to date – wondering if it’s coincidence we were thinking along same lines?
Cheers 🙂
Nope, seen your help and thought it was a great idea 🙂
Nice one! I’ve nicked your improvements and credited you by the way!
(in an update to the post)
Michele, I have changed the uri on that button – thanks.
Alan and Frank – great work, I’m going to post an update about the help button as well as using a help button and Help Page on the site – thanks!
Good work, I’ll be adding a subsribe button to my blog so over the weekend hopefully.
Really Piaras? Or should I expect a call? 😉
[…] Ok, FrankP and Alan (from Spoiltchild) had a great discussion in the comments of my post about using a Subscribe button and between them came up with the idea of combining a Subscribe button with a Help button – the Help button to lead to an explanatory page about Subscribing and RSS. […]
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