The RSS feed: You can pry it from…

My RSS stats are up to 15% of total entry pages. Fifteen percent of you are getting this site through an RSS reader, and my site stats are up in reflection of that. Well, and they’re up because my site traffic is improving. There’s been a 25% increase in traffic since I went to WordPress. I think there’s been an increase in posting as well, but my stats don’t track that. Well, WP tracks number of posts, but I’d have to count my posts in the pre-blogging tool days, and I haven’t the time nor the inclination to do that.

So it’s cheers all around for WordPress, and no way in hell am I giving up control of my RSS feed.

By the way, if any of you are looking for a designer, One Fine Jay has a lot of good ideas, and his service is above and beyond the call of what he’s supposed to do. Since he’s the WP expert, if something goes blooey and I can’t figure it out, I yell for help in an email and he’s fixed it within minutes.

Another thing I like about Jay is that he has a very good grasp of what he thinks fits my personality and that of my site. He put a big thumbs-down to my idea of changing the name to “Center Stage” and going with an auditorium/stage graphic. It isn’t me, he said. He’s right. It’s nice that he didn’t simply take the idea (and the money) and run with it, like the previous designer did.

If you’re looking to redesign your site, I recommend Jay. He’s getting quite the portfolio going, too. He was my designer for The Jewish View as well.

Now if I could only find a little time to work on the site CSS. I have ideas of my own that I’d like to implement, and don’t need Jay to edit the style sheets. I just need the time.