Originally Posted by RawAlex

I find that most sponsors really screw up their feeds.

Some of them make 7 updates a week, and release them all at the same time. Others have 3 updates in a single day, and nothing for a month. Some use methods in their feeds that are not entirely compatible with feed aggregation software (such as including flash movies in a feed... this is very difficult to do right).

As for image size, most standard wordpress blog layouts are good for between 425 and 450 wide images. Much more than that and some themes break down.

I wouldn't put more than a couple of full size pics in a blog entry, but I am not against one large and some smaller thumbs further down, example.

Oh yeah, final one for this: If you are a program that runs more than one feed, don't use exactly the same images for two different sites on the same day. It is totally fucking annoying to aggregate a teen hardcore and a general hardcore feed together and find the same exact image used to promote two different sites in different ways. Take the second one and offset it a few days. Much easier!