It’s been a busy week in the world of web design and content management. Three websites near and dear to my heart have either completed or are nearing enormous overhauls: Facebook, the William & Mary homepage, and yours truly, andydesoto.com. Here’s a brief report featuring what to expect.
Last week, I spent a decent bit of time working on a side project of mine, a podcast homepage that also features the latest excerpts from campus news sources. As I worked to implement an accessible yet intellectual property-respecting aggregation page, I came across a surprising find: not a single one of my university news sources’ RSS feeds provides the full feed; rather, each only syndicates the excerpt of each article.
