My FeedBlitz e-mail subscription only sends to my gmail account; none of the mail is going to my other test account. I’ve played around with the settings but I can’t tell what’s wrong.

So…I’m just going to stick with FeedBurner for now and see if that works.

I had quite a time getting feeds and e-mail subscriptions figured out for my class blog.

I used Sue Waters’ post to get me started. The post was very helpful and clear. However, things just didn’t seem to be working quite right.

I went a little e-mail subscription crazy. I tried the E-mail subscription widget provided, and it didn’t work. Then I worked with FeedBurner, as the post instructed. Neither the FeedBlitz or the R-mail html codes translated to a working widget, so I used FeedBurner’s option.

I got everything to work (I thought), but then when I tried to subscribe to my class bog on Bloglines, Bloglines couldn’t locate an RSS feed. Likewise, FeedBurner kept showing an error when I tried to get to my Feed.

Before bothering anybody, I decided to try to figure this out myself. By comparing my class blog to this one, I realized that the bottoms of the blogs looked different. On a hunch I changed my theme, and sure enough I had an RSS feed. I have no idea why, but hey!

Once I started exploring different options, I got picky. I didn’t like that FeedBurner only allowed an e-mail to be sent during a two-hour time period. My students and their parents have very different schedules, and I don’t want them to miss out on an e-mail just because they couldn’t access the Internet that day after it was posted.

So, instead of going through FeedBurner to FeedBlitz, I tried going right from the site itself. I think I have everything worked out now. My e-mail subscription is through FeedBlitz. I subscribed to it, and I will see soon if it works!

The adventures of a blog novice. Oh so exciting. It all seemed much more fascinating and frustrating when it was happening. I think some of this is over my head.