Site Is Restored Back

Hello... There has been an issue since a while with the domain http://www.smashingfeeds.com and i received many emails as well as tweets about this.

Well, the issue was that the domain was about to expired and i asked my domain registrar to renew it, however due to some issue it didn’t happen and so domain was automatically went to parking list. Finally, issue was identified and not site is restored back.

All the users of "Tweet This" button were affected. It was noticed that all those blogs and sites who installed this widget, were redirected to http://smashingfeeds.com site. I am not sure why was that happened.

Now site and widget are working fine.

Sorry for inconvenience. For any question or clarification, let me know @blogfisher.

Enjoy and have a great weekend !!

Which View Do you Prefer ? One Column, Two Columns or Three Columns…

When smashingfeeds.com was launched starting of this year, it has default three column view. Many comments/suggestions on the blogosphere say that three column view will not work any more. People are tired with that. I don’t know whether that’s the real case or not.

Anyway, we considered those suggestions and finally providing more flexibility for all readers. We added three options for display. You can choose either

• one column view
• two columns view or
• three columns view

just by clicking on the options as shown in below image. You can find them on right top side just below the category menu:

One can switch among these options.

One Column View:

Two Columns View: 

Three Columns View:

 

Finally thanks to jQuery team for providing such a great library.

Hope you would like this feature. Please feel free to provide your feedback/suggestions.

Cheers!!

New VC Category and Homepage

Hi,

There is a small update to SmashingFeeds.com. First the addition of new homepage. In previous version, when you open the site, it will by default show you the feed content from technology. Now with this new homepage, you will find all categories on one page. You can pick one of them based on your interest. The main reason is to show all categories on a single page rather than menu (menu is still there). This makes more visibility.

Another update is the addition of new "VC" category. This covers the news stories from all best Venture Capital blogs and websites.

Hope you like these changes. Feel free to provide your feedback.

Cheers!

Feed Arrangement Is Back

Bonjour,

   Site is up again. AS i mentioned in last post about hacking of this site by iSKORPiTX; (TURKISH HACKER). I am still not clear the intension behind hacking of this site. Most of the people say they do such things just for being popular and fun. I always keep back ups for there is no issue.

Well, there is another update. We launched feed arrangement feature couple of moths back. One can re-arrange all feeds as per choice. This feature was removed in new version of the site due to some technical issues.

It took some time to fix the issue and now this feature is back. Hope you will enjoy it.

Please give it a try and let us know if you have comments or suggestions.

Option for only head-line display

Hello,

   It has been a long time since i wrote my last post on this blog. Well, there are lots of things going on. I was in US for a month period and updating my personal blog i-Stuff…Interesting Stuff that Matters. Also working with twitter mash up..

Oh yes, i am currently working with twitter mash-up. Will soon tell you about it as its just a idea right now and will take sometime to shape it up. Currently facing problem with twitter APIs. You can check it here… If you have any idea to fix it, feel free to get back to me (blogfisher.80[at]gmail[dot]com).

Well, there is a small update to SmashingFeeds.com. If you are a regular visitor, then you would have already noticed it. There is a small “eye” icon which is added today. There are couple of suggestions i received to add this feature. When you click on the “eye” icon on the right side below the category menu, it will display only headlines of news stories as below.

Many times, it becomes difficult to go through the entire page. This “eye” button help you to scan the headline faster.

Its a kind of toggle button. So if you want to display author information, publication date as well as small description about news, then click the “eye” icon again and it will show these additional details. So its just a click away to switch between two views of news.

Hope you like this small “eye” feature. Enjoy!!

New Design To Save Energy

Hi Guys,

It’s after a long time, i am writing about smashingfeeds. Well, there is a major site redesigning happened last week. You probably have noticed the new look. It’s basically related to a black background.

Inspired by earth day, i thought to change the back ground color to black to save some amount of energy and this way i can be the part of energy saving efforts as saving energy is equivalent to generating new energy.

"Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002

This inspired me to change the background color of this website to black from white. Each time user visit this site, this new site design will help to save some amount of energy.

You can read something interesting about black color here.

SmashingFeeds.com Is Redesigned

Today i spent couple of hours in redesigning the website. Tough it was not an easy task for me to change the look, however i was somehow able to manage it.

Well, there is no major change to the features. Only look and feel (CSS) is re-designed to make it better than older design. Logo size is reduced and top menu is replaced by a simple menu at right top corner.

Area of feed items display block is increased by few pixels.

Also there were couple of updates along with this re-designing work. First is the addition of 'tweet' option in the menu. Here you will find various RSS feeds related to Twitter as well as FriendFeed. Both site are becoming popular these days. Also option is available for blog owner. If you own a blog and want to display content of your blog on SmashingFeeds.com via RSS feed, then you can email me you site name and category details. I will review it and if it is good then i will add it to my site. Please not that before submitting your blog/site, make sure your site contains original content.

Feel free to provide your valuable feedback. Also let me know the features that you want to be there in this site.

Drag-n-Drop

There is a small update to SmashingFeeds.com. Drag-n-Drop feature is added for all feeds.

What does it mean ?

Now you can drag and drop all feeds on a page. This will help you in rearranging the existing feeds as per your choice. To re-arrange the feeds, just hover the mouse on feed head and drag it anywhere you would like to place it.

Well, this is not something new for web2.0. However i think this will provide some kind of flexibility to you. So that you can keep all your favorite feeds together by rearranging them.

I will provide more update soon. Subscribe to RSS Feed.

If you have something better then feel free to share with me. Just drop me an email at : blogfisher[dot]80[at]gmail[dot]com

Your feedback and suggestions will be appreciated.

More RSS feeds for Offbeat Category and other updates

Hi,

   There are couple of updates on the SmashingFeeds.com which you probably have already observed if you are visiting the site regularly. Below are the few sub-categories added to the Offbeat category.

1. Politics
2. Sports
3. Science
4. Health
5. Travel &
6. Life Style

Also, initially there were options to collapse or expands all the feeds. However, now there is a single option to toggle the feeds. What it does is all that feeds which are currently collapsed will be expanded and vice versa.

There few features left which will be available some time later. So stay in touch and don't forget to subscribe to RSS feed.

Entertainment for Offbeat Category

Bonjour !!
This is just a small update. Offbeat category is , however feeds for Entertainment sub-category is active currently.

More sub-categories i will add soon which you can find under offbeat as above.

Feel free to send me your suggestions at admin[at]smashingfeeds[dot]com

Ciao

Expand & Collapse

There are few updates on the site. You probably have noticed two small buttons ( and ) on the right side just below the category menu.

: To expand all feeds
: To collapse all feeds

Note that by default all feeds are expanded.

More over you can collapse or expand individual feeds source just by clicking on them.

That's all as of now.

Feel free to provide your suggestions. You can drop me an email at: blogfisher[dot]80[at]gmail[dot]com

SmashingFeeds.com is back

Finally i m back with a Good News !!

Site was down for more than 1 week. As i said, because of heavy traffic, there was an issue with band width. I upgraded it and Smashing Feeds is now active again.

Cheers!!

SmashingFeeds.com is Currently Down

Bonjour !!!
I have good news as well as bad news to share with you. Let's start with something which is bad.

The bad news that i have today is that your favorite site SmashingFeeds is currently down.

The Good news is that the site has lots of visitors and becoming more popular.

Well, i hosted this site on a web server provided by my brother which doesn't have wide bandwidth. I thought the available bandwidth will be sufficient. But since last few days, site traffic was increased tremendously and the current bandwidth is not sufficient. So i m now looking for new web hosting service provide. Site will remain down till i find good hosting service provider. If you know someone reliable, then please let me know.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Stay connected to have update.

Hurrrrrray !!!

Bonjour,

I'm so much excited to write the first post on SmashingFeeds's official blog. This is just to tell the world about the launch of SmashingFeeds.com.

This site is all about displaying feeds of your interest from various news/blog sources. There are various categories for news which include :

• Technology
• Business
• Productivity
• Web2.0
• Gadget
• Social Bookmark
• Money
• Apple
• Web Design
• SEO
• Google
  
• Offbeat

All categories are HOT in their own. Offbeat is not live now, but soon i will update it. There are lot more exciting features coming on the way... So stay tubed with "Smashing Feeds, Because Feeds Make life Easier".

I will be waiting for your feed back. So please provide me your comments and help me in making this site better.

Cheers.