this pertains to the use of rss for 'podcasting' audio files, as seems to be so popular among the audience I'm going to need to be aiming for. A project manager for our little publishing company decided he wants to jump on the band wagon with this whole podcasting thing. So, naturally this requires me to do some research and see just what all this is gonna entail. Now my hayday of web development days has gone by the wayside in recent years Perhaps I'm out of the loop. . . or perhaps the concepts of design and knowing what you're doing have gone by the way-side. . . or perhaps the really 'good' info is just hiding a little deeper than I've delved this week. . . but I've been looking into this whole rss and podcasting etc wave and is it just me, or does it seem like this is A) an odd way for people with no layout skills and no patience to toss some content out there B) a lot more complicated and no less speedy file downloading system C) a way around having to get peer to peer software to just download the audio you want D) usually very horrible to look at in terms of how the podcasts are presented - it's like a step backwards in visuals normally I wouldn't be inclined to complain, but it's just time and time again my poor eyes are assaulted by these horrendous pages with oodles of info laid out like a horribly carved turkey that I'm expected to pick over and eat. Is it just me? Am I just seeing the bad ones? Is it that the people have the technology but just no concept of how to present it in a way that doesn't melt my eyeballs out of my head like the nazi's from indiana jones? More over, I thought 'alright, I see what I don't like, let's look up a way to do it more asthetically pleasing' and I'm coming up with nadda. Most of the pages I've run across are all specifically to do with just how to create feeds, rss files, advertise your content, etc . . . nothing in terms of 'how to make your audio files readily accessable but not look like total trash onscreen' any ideas?