Perhaps I was wrong about the RSS widget being the culprit.  My feed fouled up again, this time returning the HTML for the front page of my blog.  My suspicions are now aimed at WP SuperCache.  Disabling that seems to have fixed the issue.

Not sure why but I had a few problems with my RSS feed today since upgrading to WordPress 2.7.  On inspection (Feed Validator) it seemed that the RSS feed being returned from my main Atom link was returning the feed of my Pownce messages.  Very strange.  Seems like an odd bug but the quick fix was to delete the RSS widget that displays my Pownce messages in my blog sidebar.  If you’re having similar problems and use the RSS widget you might want to try doing the same.  Go to select widgets from Appearance in the Dashboard side menu and click on any RSS Widgets you have and click Remove.  Be warned I don’t think this can be undone, it suited me as my Pownce feed is pretty much useless now Pownce is closing down.

UPDATE: Don’t forget to clear your cache after doing this.

UPDATE 2: Perhaps it’s the cache and not the RSS widget after all.

The site now features a hack of the Wordpress default ‘Kubrick‘ theme for now. It is bastardized to include a cleaned up version of the logo I designed yesterday in the header. That’s pretty much the only alteration made so far but the intention is to do much more in the future. The header could perhaps stretch over the whole page and sit over a two or three column layout. An interesting addition would be a plugin for Pownce to sit in the sidebar.

So I’ve signed up for a new domain and hosting with GoDaddy.com and installed WordPress. Having looked around at the custom WordPress themes that are available, which are all very nice, I have, nevertheless, decided to design and create my own. I’d like the site to have my own personality stamped upon it aesthetically and I’d like to know what’s going on should I need to add some custom templates to the site. I’ve also started designing a draft of the banner I want to place at the top of the site which I don’t mind sharing. I guess the font and color scheme may need a bit of work, but I like the initial idea. The logo itself will likely be larger whilst the stripe at the bottom will perhaps be thinner.