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Posts from the ‘Irish Publishing News’ Category

Jan 5

Irish Publishing News Graduates To Its Own Site

So I finally pushed Irish Publishing News to its own site: www.IrishPublishingNews.com

I liked the experimenting and I’ve figured out a few things:

1) There are less blogs about books and publishing in Ireland than you’d think (if I’m missing some, let me know)
2) One widget is better than six widgets (Less is more)
3) Design is important but function is nicer
4) Most things can be built in WordPress and for free!

Still, I’m sure this iteration will be an experiment much like the others! In the meantime, check out the new site here and let me know what you think!
Eoin

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Dec 23

Resolving the RSS Issue

When you seek on the Internet, you generally shall find!

Not having an RSS feature on the page was a bit too much for me to handle I think, especially as I have raised an eyebrow to those without it in the past, It’s not that it will put someone off reading the first time, but it does reduce the likelihood of return visits.

So, with the help of Page2Rss.com the you can now get the RSS Feed for Irish Publishing News here.

Of course this is a far from perfect solution and it’s slow, but it sure improves the access.

Let me know how it feels,
Eoin

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Dec 21

The Deficiencies – Irish Publishing News

UPDATE: Irish Publishing News has graduated from it’s somewhat bootstrapped Beta and is now a stand-alone website. You can find it at www.IrishPublishingNews.com.

This is an interesting experiment to be honest. So far I have figured the NEED for the following:

1) An RSS feed for the page (this will be resolved when I move to a stand alone platform)
2) An archive
3) Proper seach capacities
4) Some kind of submission tool for readers to send in links

Anyone know a better plugin that does those things?

Eoin

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Dec 19

Irish Publishing News

Yesterday I launched a new project on Green Lamp Media’s site, Irish Publishing News. It is a news aggregator of Irish publishers, authors, newspapers and other organisations in the book industry.

It is far from perfect and needs more hand crafting than I’d like on a daily basis, but with some fine tuning over the next few weeks, I hope to create a really useful resource for anyone interested in Irish Publishing.

I’d welcome input from any quarter on how to develop it further. If this first iteration works, I intend to put the full version live on its own website.

Eoin
Green Lamp Media

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