Many freelance businesses have static portfolio and/or business websites that don’t necessarily connect to their business blogs. For a long time, I’ve wanted to put Older Space on my business site, Linda Jenkinson Web Content Design, but I figured that RSS syndication meant paying a bunch of money for some kind of complicated software. Although the tech savvy freelancers out there probably already know about Feed Digest, I just found it today.

Feed Digest lets you put up to five RSS feeds on your blog or website for free and makes doing it as easy and enjoyable as a walk in the park. You start out by creating one feed digest, and when that’s finished, you can edit the digest to add more feeds from other blogs. There are also upgrade options available if you aren’t satisfied with five feeds.

Choose how you want your feeds to appear from a sweet selection of pre-defined templates or build your own template using Feed Digest’s special tags. Feed Digest gives you plenty of control over your digest, from choosing your own title to key-wording the content you want to display and listing in what order it should appear.

Tell you what… they probably explain it much better than I can. You can see an example of Feed Digest on my site or just go to Feed Digest to find out how easy it is to add RSS feeds to your blog or website.

Feed Digest is the easy way to add syndication to your website. Get the details here.

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One of the problems with freelance design is finding good graphics. Of course there are many sites that offer free images, but some of those ‘free images’ are free to use only until you get caught. The best graphic sites are those that provide Royalty Free images at an affordable price. Until lately, iStock has been my favorite site to locate graphics. However, recently they’ve made some price increases, and while moderate, they are still more than I’m ready to pay.

Another option is Fotolia. Although Fotolia doesn’t have all the bells and whistles, you’ll find many of the same graphics and photos there as you will at iStock and over the last few months, Fotolia has made great improvements in site organization.

As well as photograhs, Fotolia has an excellent selection of graphic art in both rastor and vector formats. The submission system is very simple for designers and photographers who want to submit their work for either pay or credits.

Prices at Fotolia remain at $1.00, $2.00, and $3.00 per item depending on size. I first found out about Fotolia through my Web Host, 1 & 1 Internet. Clients of 1 & 1 receive 25% more from Fotolia, so when you purchase 12 credits, you receive 15, making each item even less expensive. That’s just one of the perks in hosting with 1 & 1… but that’s another review!

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When your web content isn’t being read, the problem may not be your writing; it could be your colors. Although your web color palette may be pleasing, some color combinations not only make reading difficult and unpleasant for your readers, they may also make your text completely illegible for the color blind and of course, for other readers who have limited vision. Continue reading… Product Review: The Colour Contrast Analyser

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If you like blogging as well as reading blogs, take a look at one of the hottest blogging communities on the web, The Blog Experiment. Just under a month old, already TBE has snagged 125 members and has over 3,500 posts (If those figures are wrong when you look, it’s because this community is growing just that fast!) Continue reading… The Blog Experiment: Review

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HTML-Kit - More than meets the eye!

Take a look at HTML-Kit today! With HTML-Kit, what you see isn’t what you get - you get a whole lot more than you ever imagined!

Weighing in at just 2.8MB, HTML-Kit rises above the text-editor competition with practical tools for building (and uploading) powerful, standards-compliant web pages. Continue reading… When WYS isn’t WYG

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