Subscribing to the Blog

Please note, this is only for those of you who are interested in adding this blog to your feeds. For everyone else, please just check the blog periodically!

I think I may have misled you last night. When you subscribe to the blog, you will not be e-mailed when a post is published (that was an option we had for keeping it private, but it could have been more complicated). Instead, the blog will be added to your "feeds." With Internet Explorer, you view your feeds by clicking on your Favorites tab, which then has a star for "Favorites" and the orange "Feed" symbol for feeds. Whenever a blog that is in your feeds list has been updated, it will be in bold. So here are the exact steps to take:

1) Click on either the orange feeds button at the top of the page, or click on the link "Subscribe to: posts (atom)" at the very bottom of the blog.

2) You will be taken to the "feeds" page, where you will want to click on the link that says "Subscribe to this feed."

3) The blog is now in your feeds tab, and is by default set to check for updates once a day. You can right click on the blog name in the feeds tab and change how often it checks for updates.

4) To see if the blog has been updated, just click on your Favorites tab, then Feeds. If Singing Ladies is in bold, there is a new post!

5) When you click on the bolded feed, it will mark the blog as being read. Please note that it takes you just to the text of the post, not the blog itself. I usually like to switch from here to the blog itself using my favorites tab.

6) One other note: the feeds page itself also only shows the main posts, not the comments. You have to be at the actual blog to see comments people have made. (I, personally have opted to have comments e-mailed to me. You can do this from the blog by clicking the "Customize" link at the top right, then the "Settings" tab, then the "Comments" tab and add your e-mail address at the bottom)

Alternately, of course, you can just check the blog periodically. I hope this doesn't sound too complicated, because it really isn't. I have found feeds to be a great way of keeping up with blogs without having to actually go to each blog all the time. (In my great blogging experience, of course, which dates back one whole month!)