G'day greg544 -
If you use Blogger (Blogspot), you might want to do the first part this way:
In your blog settings choose "Email" and set up a Mail-to-Blogger Address that you can email your posts to (keep the address private - otherwise anyone with it could post to your blog).
Many email programs have the capability of being able to set a time for emails to be sent. So create your "Tip Of The Day" post in your email client, and set your email client to send it at a certain time. That way you could create a whole lot of Tip posts at one time, and just set each one to be emailed by your client to your blog 24 hours later than the previous one.
Second Part (any blogging platform)
It appears that you also want to set up a separate feed just for your tips. I'm assuming that they will be on the same blog as other non-tip posts (if on their own blog, scroll down this post to "FeedBurner"). Thus you would have 2 feeds for your blog - one for all posts and one for Tips Of The Day. One way you might want to do this is to set up a free account at
Feed Digest : Mix, convert, and republish feeds. Use your normal blog feed to create the initial feed (digest), and then do this:
Go to the edit mode of your digest, and in the "Search Query" section choose to show a word or words that would only be in your Tips posts, but not in general posts. You might want to use your regular post title, but only choose a word or words that will not be in other non-tips posts. For example, if you use the words tip or day in other posts regularly, you might want to title your actual Tips posts as "Adam's Special Tip of the Day" and then use one of the words Adam, Adam's or Special as your keyword.
If all works out, you should then have a special Tips-only feed available.
Once that is done you can put the RSS feed link on your blog, and even use it to create widgets with the various services that provide feed-summary widgets.
Finally, you might also want to add the feed as an auto-discovery option for browsers, so when people click on the RSS icon in the address bar or wherever else their browser displays when a feed is available, they will get the options to subscribe to both your main feed and your tips feed. To do this requires a bit of editing of the blog template (I'll use Blogger as an example - further advice for other blog platforms below):
Go to you blog template and select "Edit HTML". Then, under your main feed details & just above the line:
| Code: |
| <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> |
enter this (you might want to save a copy of your template first as a backup - you can do it on the same page):
| Code: |
| <link href='http://(your FeedDigest Feed URL)' rel='alternate' title='Tips Of The Day' type='application/atom+xml'/> |
Preview your blog to see that it renders okay, check the RSS icon to see if both your main and Tips feeds are showing, and if everything is okay, then save the template.
You can add a second feed to any type of blog or site as long as you can edit the HTML. Just make sure that you put the secondary feed details under all of the stuff associated with the main feed, as web robots and blog community sites such as Technorati & MyBlogLog always look at the topmost feed when retrieving the details of your latest posts.
FeedBurner:
To allow people to subscribe by email to your feed, set up a free account with FeedBurner. Then "Burn" your Tips feed. Go to your Dashboard and choose "Publicize". Then select "Email Subscriptions" and you can set everything up (it's self-explanatory & will even export the widget to your Blogger blog). There's lots of other cool things you can set up at FeedBurner too - you will have a lot of fun there.
Hope this info helps.
Cheers,
seaeagle
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