Making RSS Feed Pages Readable

Don't use this site as an example. I've paid zero attention to design, as you can tell. The only design elements you see are a canned Moveable type theme.

But in well designed sites, one thing that you want to be sure of is that every page a user can potentially get to is something that anybody can understand - whether it's a content page or an error page. Standard error pages can be confusing to non-technical people, so a lot of webmasters have gone to the trouble of creating styled 404 pages, sometimes with a feedback feature enabled, others with a search function, or maybe even both.

But when you click on a link to an RSS feed, you end up getting an XML tree. Most people have not gone through the trouble of styling their RSS pages because it's just not that easy to do. I spent the last couple of days digging around the web and found many solutions that really weren't complete. There are a couple of services you can use, like feedburner or pheedo, but it's less than desirable in my mind to pass off RSS management to an external entity.

I have actually come up with a pretty decent solution - combining a few bits of knowledge that I found on the web, and using a little bit of my own ingenuity. I'm pretty happy with the results, but I'm going to refrain from publishing them for the time being until I have a chance to accomplish a few other things - better documentation, a tutorial article, etc.

I also want this site to be a little more managable and performance friendly just in case this kind of a thing means an influx of inbound traffic.