Tactics for Success
Consult experts
Six Apart has long been a home for more than a group of enthusiastic developers, but also professionals and service providers who build entire business around our products. Through our extensive Professional Network we can connect you directly with the people and experts you need to get your most difficult and challenging technical questions answered. And if you need someone to help build a custom solution specific to your business, ProNet can help with that too.
Support open standards and protocols
The Atom standard for web feeds and publishing is an IETF standard that you’ll want to be familiar with. (Being an IETF standard means it’s a peer to protocols like HTTP.) Once you’ve mastered Atom, you can grab content from many common web applications and instantly post it to the millions of Atom Enabled blogs existing today, which includes the majority of the most popular blogs in the world.
Default to being open with your data
Your users will surprise you with the kind of information they’re looking for, and with the ways they use that information. If you default to making as much accessible as possible, you leave room open for serendipity.
Follow Postel’s Law.
This famous maxim encourages us all to be liberal in what we accept and conservative in what we output. Doing so means it’s more likely users are going to succeed in letting your site connect to their blog, and it means they’ll be more satisfied with the work you do.
