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Peter

The problem appears to be the markup used in entries.

On 'The Burning Edge', Jesse uses the HTML list construct so that each item (Good/Bad) is a seperate list - and each item within a list, is marked:

<ul class="good">
<li>Item 1 - ....</li>
<li>Item 2 - ....</li>
</ul>
<ul class="bad">
<li>Item 1 - ...</li>
<li>Item 2 - ...</li>
</ul>

Whereas you just list them using <br /> tags.

This would appear to be the problem.

but if i use <li> tags, the bullets will appear as in unordered lists, do i have to create style sheets like Jesse to remove these bullets?

I looked at TBE's page source, and havent have any clue on how he removes the bullets even though they comprise of <li> tags. I tried adding the tags but those bullets appear, and have no idea how Jesse does so.

Your site stylesheet is located at the following URL:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/styles-site.css

The proper way to remove the bullets is by adding the following code to the above stylesheet, which will remove bullets from all lists with the class named "sample", like so:

Sample HTML:

<ul class="sample">
<li>stuff</li>
<li>more stuff</li>
</ul>

Sample CSS:

ul.sample { list-style-type: none; }
ul.sample li { text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em; }

TBE also has 0px for left margins and padding in the ul.sample selector, but I want to say that's not strictly necessary for what you want (it still might be necessary).

It looks like the other reason his look good and yours don't is that the posts in the feed inside <description> tags aren't enclosed in <![CDATA[ and ]]>. For example:

<description><![CDATA[
This is my post.
<ul>
<li>hi</li>
<li>bye</li>
</ul>
]]></description>

For some reason MT is removing the HTML you're using to format the entries, so in your feed a post looks like this:

<description>Checkins: Fixed: 249838 - Enable Webservices for Supporting Extensions Manager Fixed: 253055 - Use a folder listener to track folder name changes and deletions Fixed: 253359 - Artwork for RSS folders and posts Fixed: 252056 - Thunderbird should set itself...</description>

It's also worth noting that if you want the whole post to show up at the feedHouse, you need to change a setting in MT somewhere to syndicate full posts. Right now you're syndicating summaries or introductions (can't help more because I've never used MT before).

You also need a favicon, probably the thunderbird icon.

At some point, I changed a line of my index.rdf template to:

<description><$MTEntryBody encode_xml="1"$></description>

Hope that helps.

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fweblogs.mozillazine.org%2Frumblingedge%2Findex.rdf

I would also suggest a 'wider' blog, since the FIXED and BUG descriptions really don't fit. Or use a smaller font.

Thanks for the blog, will check it often.

I second Marty's comment. I don't mind the blue margins at all but at least please make the width of the white central column variable.

Favicon & some links added, margin widened, rss/xml problem fixed. Everything looks wonderful now.

:)