If you’re like me, you like registering domains. It’s exciting. But what’s not exciting is watching your hosting company or domain registrar turn your name into an ad-farm while you’re getting ready to launch your next WordPress blog. If you didn’t know it, that’s called domain parking; a way for hosts and domain registrars to capitalize on all the underdeveloped domains out there. That’s why I came up with LaunchPad, the WordPress Domain Parking Theme. To explain: if this theme had a motto it might be, “I’m not your billboard.”
Now with most hosts offering one-click installs of WordPress—I recommend Fused Network—it couldn’t be easier to park your domain in style while you get your future blog ready. Just install WordPress, sign up for FeedBurner with email subscriptions (see instructions below) and you’re set! You get a professionally designed domain parking page—for free—that serves up an RSS feed link and a form for email updates.
But why bother? Well, let’s see what web design expert Mr. Meltdown, of Design Meltdown, thinks of “coming soon” pages like LaunchPad.
This type of landing page has dropped the annoying construction cones and replaced with relevant and useful features. Namely among this is a sign up form to be notified of an actual launch, beta release, or other significant milestone. And of course this is a great way to build a nice mailing list of people to market a new product to. After all, if they actually complete the form they are likely to be very interested. Link.
Sounds like a good idea to me!
LaunchPad Features
- Theme Options Page
- Integration with FeedBurner
- Professional design and typesetting
- GPL Licensed—it’s free and you’re free to mess with it.
LaunchPad Instructions
Using LaunchPad is simple, it installs like any other WordPress theme, but there’s a couple of things you’ll need to get ready beforehand.
Get a FeedBurner ID and Feedmail
For a theme that incorporates FeedBurner to build subscriptions before you’ve even started blogging, this one is necessary. Signing up for FeedBurner is easy and you were probably going to do it anyway. Visit FeedBurner.com and follow the instructions there. Once that’s done, login and visit your account page.
All you’ll need is the name of your FeedBurner feed address. That’s the text after “http://feeds2.feedburner.com/”. Copy it into a text file somewhere for easy reference.
While you’re here, sign up for Feedmail. Click the publicize tab and look for the Email Subscriptions link under services (as I write this, it’s the 4th item). Follow the setup instructions there—but don’t worry about pasting any code anywhere, LaunchPad does that all for you.
Credit has to go to Nathan Rice for showing me how to do this with his beautiful theme Elegant Blue. Thanks, Nathan!
Write your Welcome Post
When someone subscribes to your new blog with RSS they will be able to read any published posts. You don’t want them reading your “Hello World!” post. Write a simple introduction to your new blog that outlines it’s genesis and your goals so your new subscribers will have something to read.
Set Theme Options
Simply copy your feed name into the options page …
… and You’re Done! You’re ready to launch your blog with LaunchPad!
Tips for Launching Your WordPress Blog with LaunchPad
There is really only one crucial tip for making the most of LaunchPad: let people know you have a URL. WordPress themes don’t work magic. You still have to market yourself. I recommend doing it in stages. First let your immediate friends and family know, then send out word on any social sites (like Facebook, LinkedIn, Hello Kitty Fan Club, etc.) you’re a member of. Follow that up with a link on an existing blog—if you have one. If you don’t have a blog I recommend getting one—using LaunchPad while you’re getting it ready of course!
Speaking of getting ready, make sure you read Collis Ta’eed’s two part Building a SuperBlog series on NorthXEast (Part two is here). It outlines the steps Collis took when launching FreelanceSwitch and his advice will help anyone launch their blog successfully. Without my LaunchPad theme, even. Imagine!
And while LaunchPad is collecting subscribers for you, create your own WordPress Theme with the help of the WordPress Theme Design Book.
Best of luck launching your blog! It can be a crazy time and I hope LaunchPad will help get rid of some of that craziness—and hopefully not cause any! Let me know how it goes in the comments section of this post or drop me a line at my contact page. Want to launch your next WordPress blog with a really great host? Try Fused Network.
View the live demo or download.
179 Comments
Very nice Ian!
Thanks, Will!
This is neat, Ian. I’ll be trying it out soon…
I would imagine it provides good motivation for pushing through a design as you see people signing up to be notified of its launch.
Can’t wait to see what you’re launching, David. And, yeah it is kind of motivating. Surprising too. I had more subscriptions by email than feed reader.
What an excellent idea! I’ll be using it for a planned local magazine type site. Thanks for thinking of this!
You’re welcome, Sue.
If I was smart enough, I would’ve used such a theme before the launch of my Logo Design Love blog.
Keep up the great work, Ian.
Thanks, David!
(Oh, and make sure you check out David’s blog about logo design, everyone.)
Wow, that is such an obvious idea, I wish I had thought of this. I’m rolling this out onto several of my parked domains now.
Cool. Glad you like it, Michael.
Very cool idea…
Thanks, Tan.
No doubt its great. Thanks Ian!
simple yet effective it’s amazing how some theme’s just click, i know you can’t class this as a ‘theme’ but it does ‘exactly what it say’s on the tin’
Thanks!
Thanks, Roger, I really—wait a minute, scuba-diving in Egypt (check out Roger’s blog)! That’s Harry Houdini stuff! I bet you don’t get bored much, Roger.
ps why don’t theme builder’s build into their theme’s simple option’s like the custom rss address and email that you have would make it easier for us non techie’s instead of digging into code we then break many times before we get it right!!
“ps why don’t theme builder’s build into their theme’s simple option’s like the custom rss address and email that you have?”
Mainly because it’s slightly confusing and not exactly easy. I barely understand it, myself and like I mentioned above, I only got it to work after following Nathan Rice’s example.
a clever theme!
the funny thing when I (obviously scanning and not reading the details) checked the demo page, my initial thought was “what? So the demo section is not yet done, I guess I’ll check back later…”. Foolishly not knowing that that’s what exactly the theme’s purpose.
Respect
Thanks, Hafiz. I just subscribed to your blog three days ago, by the way. Great stuff there.
Awesome. Putting it to good use.
Thank you for this. One small issue – there seems to be some “mac trash” in your zip file. When I download it to a unix server and unzip the file, I get the launchpad folder, and an additional “__MACOSX” folder with ds_store files.
Thanks for the heads up, Michael. I’m looking into an alternate archiving utility that should remove that small issue.
Cheers for this brilliant idea Ian! Not only is my current site undergoing a redesign, but I have a few projects being worked on too, and yes, I’ll be implementing Launchpad for nearly all of them:)
Thanks again for this.
Glad you like it, Curvball!
Thanks. This just came right on time.
Great tool. many thanks. I do have one question/ addition, though. Is there a way to further customize the email subscription screens for Feedburner? Now when you subscribe to my feed using Launchpad, I get the ugly blue/ standard message (and following confirmations from feed burner. Can I possibly change the text/ colors/ message of these? and how? it would be a great improvement to this great tool.
Thanks again and keep them coming
Ed, FeedBurner has some options for email styling under “email branding”. Look at the left sidebar under “email subscriptions” when you’re on the “email subscriptions” page.
Thanks Ian, I already checked it out, and it works OK…. though not as slick as LaunchPad (sigh!)
Great idea
Lovely idea, lovely theme! Thanks!
Any other theme like this then? Beautiful – Simple and Elegant!!!
Thank you for the nice Theme! Very good to get started.
So i have set up launchpad on my domain and set up feedburner, well i think i have correctly.
But with my feed its the generic feeburner welcome post. How do i start writing feeds from wordpress to automatically update feedburner.
Im stuck and yes im new to all this any help would be appriciated
It takes a while before FeedBurner updates. As long as you followed the instructions in the post you should be fine, Joe.
Me again, so i’m checking feedburner and the original feed is coming from wordpress http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/wp-rss2.php and when i go into my main account at feedburner and view my rss feed is shows correctly the feed from wordpress but when i actually go to my website and view the feed from the button on the parking page it still shows as the feedburner default welcome messgage?
Will this change in time or if there something i may be missing? I am concerned as i have already started getting subcribers even before i started writing my feeds so i want people who click the rss feed button to start seeing my posts from wordpress with the updates on how the website is going, thanks.
scratch my last comment, i finally found out what i was doing wrong, i was giving it the wrong feedburner address in my settings, i feel so stupid thanks for your help especially Ian thanks for a quick reply
@ Joe: people will be able to read your posts via their feedreader. Not via the WordPress blog using the Launchpad theme. As soon as your definite theme is up, people will be able to view your posts just like on any other blog. For instance mine
*lol* .. scratch mine too then
Post-scratch-fever!
I thought you might like to see how I’ve used your theme. I’ve recently moved my blog to a new home and I’ve used your theme to handle the re-direct.
http://blog.yourwish.co.nz/
After a little customisation, it works perfectly!
Thanks
Very nice update, Dawn. Thanks for letting me know about it.
Errr, derrrrrrrrrrr, how are we sposed to download it ?
I’ve highlighted the download link.
Thanks for the great theme! Just what I need while I wait to relaunch my site!
You’re welcome, Tommy.
Here’s a good alternative if you don’t want to use WP:
http://LaunchSoon.com
You can also check out some cool designs from the gallery:
http://launchsoon.com/gallery.php
Thanks
Cool template found….
i will definitely try this latter on…
thanks for sharing
It’s cool!
Thanks 4 theme, I like it very much!
Great theme. However, Feedburner seems to have an issue with validation. (my host is in germany). Anybody else have that issue? Cant generate the feed with out validation.
“It looks like this is a web page, not a feed. I looked for a feed associated with this page, but couldn’t find one. Please enter the address of your feed to validate.”
Thanks
Weird. I’d check the Feedburner Forums. If it turns out to be some weird problem with LaunchPad, let me know.
Seems like a nice idea leading to not so boring pages with eventual benefits for the users on both ends.
Nice Theme, I like it very much. I will definitely try it.
Thanks
Thanks so much for this! My newest website bookwormsunite isn’t ready for viewers but I didn’t like the domain parking that my registrar had so I used LaunchPad and now I have a couple of subscribers who are waiting to see what I have in store!
You’re welcome. Also, I’ve subscribed to bookwormsunite.com. The title caught my interest.
Awesome theme – comes in handy, big time. It’s the first thing I put up when I’m working on a client’s site. (And then I use ‘Theme Test Drive’ to work on their custom theme behind the scenes…)
A heads up for anyone who does the same – if Theme Test Drive is enabled, you no longer see the Theme Options screen where you enter the Feedburner info… so do that first, and then enable the Test Drive. Hopefully that’ll save you the frantic searching I went through!
Thanks again, Ian – really useful contribution you’ve created here.
Thanks for the tip about Theme Test Drive. That’s a really great idea.
If you send me the few lines of text, I’ll give you the translations for a German version if you are interested, just email me.
I love the idea and am trying to implement this on my site. Im a newbie when it comes to web design, but am slowly teaching myself drupal. I do have one problem though. I signed up for a feedburner account but cant seem to find my account number. When I view my account info i get this:
https://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/account;jsessionid=4C7E14D8D6D2ED87F158FB20C5EC1047.fb1
Any help would be appreicated. Thanks!
@Kyle: Make sure you’re looking at the FeedBurner dashboard. Take a look at the URL again in the post above.
I feel bad posting questions like this in your comments section but I am guessing you have to purchase a pro account to get to the dashboard? I searched all around “My Feeds” and ” My Account” and cant find anything. I tired manually typing in the url to get close to it, but it just redirects me to the “My Feeds” page.
@Kyle: If you’re on the page that has the tabs; Analyze, Optimize, Publicize, etc., you’re on the right page. Look at the address bar and you’ll see it.
And the pro features are free. Good luck.
Me again. Taken some time, but I have my feedburner account working recieving requests. (I hadnt subscribed in my last problem) My new problem is that I am using drupal and not wordpress. I downloaded your theme from drupals theme section but I am guessing that the zip does not contain all the files needed for the theme. When I activate the theme and set my site to “Offline Mode” all I get is text and the subscription box. No color or styleing. I tried using the images folder from the theme for Wordpress but I am guessing it does not contain what the drupal theme is needing. Feel free to look at my site to get an idea of what is happening. http://www.thefrantzs.com/
Thanks again!!
@Kyle: Can’t help you with the Drupal version, Kyle. I didn’t code it up and I’m not the maintainer. Check the contact info on the release page.
I can’t wait to use this for my new start up!thanks a million!
Ian thanks for the fantastic parking theme. This is to be my first blog ever and your theme gives me a little more breathing room to obsess on making my content perfect before actually launching. And if you knew what a tech retard I am you would be amazed that I loaded up your theme all by myself and activated Feedburner right afterwards—via your instructions!
Thank you again!
Best,
Derrick:0
Hi,
One more. We used LaunchPad for Mayomi.com private beta. Great design. Why going for other design when you have the best one
Keep Going,
John
Ian,
This is an awesome theme, great work my friend. I changed the design up a bit and added a twitter feed to the page. Check it out here http://radiumlabs.com
This will work great while I complete my new site.
thank you, thank you, thank you.
it’s a lovely design. I just decided to make it more personal and match my future site.
thanks for making it easy to do that!
For some reason the theme does not utilize the scroll bars in Firefox, but works fine in IE7? have you seen this??
Great theme, I already started using it for my latest website: tyrojobs.com
This is so great! I really appreciate the how-to in addition to the theme, as I’m new to Wordpress and managing my own feed. While I’m excited to get my blog up and running, at least I can stop waiting to give out the address! Many thanks.
Great idea, exactly what I have been looking for. I have purchased quite a few domains recently so am going to use your theme until I finally get round to developing each one. Thanks
Has Feedburner changed since this theme was created? I can’t seem to locate the “account id” referred to, nor can i find any reference to a service called “feedmail”
Got it – the directions on how to use the feed burner site are vague… Basically for those who run into the same issue: You need to point Feed Burner to your Wordpress blog feed. IE: http://www.yoursite.com/wp-rss2.php
So when you first setup your Feed Burner account you will see a box to “burn your feed”. Then press “next”.
Once you go through that process you will arrive at a page which will show your ID just like the instructions above state.
Good Luck
Great theme. Though I cannot seem to find the settings to add my feedburner info. Looked everywhere in the wp backend. I do have the them activated too. Ideas Anyone?
If you are not finding the settings to add your feedburner info it is under “design > current theme options”
– Thanks Ian!
Just wanted to say this is an awesome idea and wonderful template. Good job. Keep up the good work!
Hi, I love this theme
I have installed this on my new site http://www.matthewbibby.com and it is working great!
One question, what is the easiest way to develop the new site while LaunchPad is the theme?
Great work!
If you’re like me, you like registering domains. It’s exciting. But what’s not exciting is watching your hosting company or domain registrar turn your name into an ad-farm while you’re getting ready to launch your next Word Press blog. If you didn’t know it, that’s called domain parking; a way for hosts and domain registrars to capitalize on all the underdeveloped domains out there. That’s why I came up with Launch Pad, the Word Press Domain Parking Theme. To explain: if this theme had a motto it might be, “I’m not your billboard.”
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Very nice, works well, easy to set up. Thanks a lot!
How do I tweak the theme that I will eventually use while having LaunchPad on the landing page? How can I mess with my eventual site if Launchpad is the only page displayed?
What a timely discovery for me. I’ve schedule a luanch of a new blog in January. I’ve just set up LaunchPad as my theme and have activated the RRS feed and Email Subscriptions from Feedburner. I’m quickly up and running. THAKKS TO YOUR EXTRAORDINARY LAUNCHPAD.
While at your site, I’ve poked around. I’m also extremely intrigued by the Acarnas Theme. I’ll be considering a purchase as I start to develop my content. Curiously, I’m looking for a theme that is elegant, while also also some commerciality. Acarnas may be the ticket.
Really nice! I use it at magnumcanvas.com
Thank You!!
Björn
I’ve been hunting all over for a decent parking solution and this is exactly what I’ve been looking for. I’ve got a ton of staged domains that are probably making my registrar a small fortune. Thanks for putting this together.
This is perfect. Thank you!
Nice Theme
Hello Ian. is there any way I can integrate the audio player of wpaudioplayer.com into the theme? I like my readers to listen to music while my blog runs with launchpad theme.
The plugin author included a standalone player for index pages and parked domain pages here: http://wpaudioplayer.com/standalone
but I do not know how to integrate them.
It would be nice if we could change the colour of that bar. And the text, but its great idea that is implemented well. Good Shot. As we say in South Africa.
Great theme, love the idea and the look, but can`t get it to work? The RSS always links to the hom-page and one can not see the actual feed. Any help greatly appreciated.
Version 1.1 doesn’t work with the latest designs of Feedburner since it moved over to Google. I’ve updated the in index.php as follows to make it work. I thought it might help other people:
<!– This is the original code, defunct as of FeedBurner’s transfer to Google
<form action=”http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverify” method=”post” target=”popupwindow” onsubmit=”window.open(‘http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=’, ‘popupwindow’, ’scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520′);return true”>
Enter your email address:
<input type=”hidden” value=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~e?ffid=” name=”url”/>
<input type=”hidden” value=”" name=”title”/>
–>
<form action=”http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify” method=”post” target=”popupwindow” onsubmit=”window.open(‘http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=’, ‘popupwindow’, ’scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520′);return true”>
Enter your email address:
<input type=”hidden” value=”" name=”uri”/>
<input type=”hidden” value=”" name=”title”/>
Just wanted to let you know that the theme doesn’t work since Google acquired Feedburner. It might still work with older Feedburner accounts but if you create a new Feedburner account the user-id and the code doesn’t work. I have replaced the code with the update Google code and it works fine now.
Enter your email address:
<input type="hidden" value="" name="title"/>
I image the code most likely won’t post so you can email if you need more info.
Thanks again for an awesome theme.
Thanks for letting me know. I’ll release an updated version.
Very nice theme. !!
However, feedburner is a headache. I usually don’t have any trouble with things like this. For the most part it’s working. The email subscription is not. Activated the email sub on my feedburner account, followed all directions, triple checked all settings, and still feedburner keeps saying email sub is not active when i test the email subscription from my site…… is this some new bug since google acquired feedburner? Also I notice that there is NO “7 digit” ID number… its more like 20 digits of numbers and letters….. any ideas?
Chris,
Until Ian makes the update to the index.php file so that it works with google feedburner accounts, the simplest workaround is to cut and paste the feedburner email subscription code (On the Publicize tab once you’ve activated feedburner email subscriptions) into themes/launchpad/index.php (you can do this in the WP editor). Paste the code to overwrite what’s currently between the tags.
You’ll need to do a bit of tweaking with the CSS to make it look exactly as before.
Ian,
Thanks for a great theme. Excellent way to publicize upcoming sites while you’re developing. I’m using it for my 360 VR panorama photography site esixty.co.uk. Took me a little while to get the email subscription working, but well worth the effort. I’d never have managed anything so useful, so quickly on my own. Thanks for the heads up on feedburner too. This could be much less effort that than the mailman setup I currently use for email subs – saves having to do everything twice!
Thanks again.
Ken
Launchpad is a tidy little theme and this is my first time trying to use it. But I’ve run into a problem: Goodle Feedburner does not publish or display the IDs anymore. I did some Googling and saw that others are having the same issues. The previous way of locating the ID doesn’t display anything of use.
Has anyone any ideas how to get the Feedburner ID as it is central to using Launchpad? Or is there a workaround?
Thanks Ian, and all!
There’s an update in the comments above. I’ll be submitting it to the Themes directory tonight. It’s been a bit of a delay. Sorry. Busy, busy busy.
LaunchPad has been updated! Make sure you download it from the download link in the post.
Hi Ian,
Great theme you have put together here, one thing that I would notice, is that email subscriptions don’t work with new Feedburner Feeds since Google is trying to get them to work with Google Accounts.
The Feed id is much longer than the 7 digits you have allowed for.
Can we expect to see an updated theme, or am I free to go ahead and update it to work with the relaunched Feedburner?
I mean to get to it, but feel free to edit it in any way you see fit.
Having difficulties with the email setup. I did it all (and have done it a ton of times before for other accounts), but never tied it together with this theme. It’s just not working for me.
http://nonprofitcamp.org
http://feeds.feedburner.com/NonProfitCamp
Any ideas?
I’ve figured out why it’s not working: a stupid assumption on my part. Please be patient while it repair it. I’ll leave a comment when it’s fixed up. Cheers.
Yay! LaunchPad is fixed! Download away! It’s even easier to use now too. No more knowing your FeedBurner ID. Thanks, Google.
Maybe I spoke too quick, I cant get it work as it show no email subscription where in fact I already set up.
I left the id field empty.
Ian~
I feel like a moron! I have followed the steps above (as best I can tell) and am still receiving the cited error: The feed does not have subscriptions by email activated..
[Before you ask... Yes, my feedburner email is activated].
On WordPress they are still requesting a Feedburner Address AND a Feedburner ID under ‘Current Theme Options’ for this template; however, from reading the above responses you’ve given, it sounds like there is no need for an ID.
I have not altered any of the coding that auto loaded when I activated this template directly on WP…. What in the sam-hill am I doing wrong?
Thanks tons!!
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[...] Suppose you see some big shopping mall near your locality, you will not see it directly built and opened, there will be boards and advertisements already before it is built, and these boards show “Opening shortly – A great shoppi…”, this actually gets some good talks and people already talk about it and keep in mind to give a visit there in future when it is built. The same is with some big companies which try to launch their online ventures. First they keep the site under construction and prefer to show the visitors how good the launch is going to be. Its now easy for the company blogs, when you will see this theme called the LaunchPad wordpress theme. [...]
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[...] som heter LaunchPad SE, en översättning av Ian Stewarts utmärkta (men ack så engelska) LaunchPad, för kommande bloggar som man gärna vill kunna länka ett tag innan lanseringen. Jag gjorde [...]
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[...] but aren’t ready to launch, you *can* use Wordpress to announce to the world just that. The LaunchPad theme’s landing page gives users the chance to sign-up for the RSS feed and announcements [...]
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[...] şi configurezi chiar tot ceea ce îţi doreai? Nicio problemă, folosind o temă gratuită numită Launchpad poţi face un pic de buzz despre viitorul tău domeniu, poţi oferi posibilitatea de abonare la [...]
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[...] Launchpad est un thème de parcage de domaines, utilisant astucieusement certaines fonctions de FeedBurner, créé par Ian Stewart en janvier 2008. Extrait de son fichier “readme.txt”: Si vous êtes comme moi, vous aimez enregistrer des noms de domaine. C’est excitant. Mais ce qui n’est pas excitant c’est de voir votre hébergeur ou registrar transformer vos domaines en des pages publicitaires pendant que vous vous préparez à lancer votre prochain blog WordPress. Si vous ne le saviez pas, c’est ce qu’on appelle du parcage de domaines; un moyen pour les hébergeurs et les registrars de capitaliser sur tous les domaines non encore développés. C’est pourquoi j’ai crée LaunchPad, le Thème WordPress de Parquage de Domaine. Plus simplement dit, si ce thème devait avoir une devise ce pourrait être “je ne suis pas votre affiche publicitaire”. [...]
[...] LaunchPad est un thème de parcage de domaines, utilisant astucieusement certaines fonctions de FeedBurner, créé par Ian Stewart en janvier 2008. Extrait de son fichier “readme.txt”: Si vous êtes comme moi, vous aimez enregistrer des noms de domaine. C’est excitant. Mais ce qui n’est pas excitant c’est de voir votre hébergeur ou registrar transformer vos domaines en des pages publicitaires pendant que vous vous préparez à lancer votre prochain blog WordPress. Si vous ne le saviez pas, c’est ce qu’on appelle du parcage de domaines; un moyen pour les hébergeurs et les registrars de capitaliser sur tous les domaines non encore développés. C’est pourquoi j’ai crée LaunchPad, le Thème WordPress de Parquage de Domaine. Plus simplement dit, si ce thème devait avoir une devise ce pourrait être “je ne suis pas votre affiche publicitaire”. [...]
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[...] LaunchPad is a killer WordPress “domain parking” theme. It’s the perfect way to let visitors know that something cool is “coming soon” when you’ve registered a domain name but haven’t yet had a chance to actually build anything. This high-impact, minimalist layout (example) comes pre-configured with two RSS subscription options — via email or feed reader — so you can keep potential visitors informed about your launch plans. What a great idea! [...]
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