Starting a Book on Page 300

Andy,

Pure opinion here...

First, a blog is not a book.

I think the longer a blog gets the higher the possibility that page 1 possibly contains obsolete information.

Having reverse chronology means the most current content is what is displayed first. For those who follow a blog regularly, it is preferred. IMHO.

As for web design, I try and follow the three click rule; you should be able to get anywhere on a site in no more than three clicks. On a shallow site you should be able to get to any page FROM any page. If these are applied and you started on page 300 it would be no problem to go to page 1 easily and pick up the story at the beginning if desired.

My offer to do the 2006 table of contents still stands. I'll do 2007 if you like as well.

Eric

Three Click Rule is correct, my only excuse is I never know where I am going until I am there.... Now I can 3 click it back.

Correct, blog is not a book, however to make money, I think I could spin off some PDF books, and other ways, so on and so forth, so working on this.

The amount of work to do the table without having all the files to me is staggering. I finally downloaded all 3400 files, and am using Macro Express to automated grab and paste into a database. So being I have the raw data thought better to do myself as is easier. The power of procrastination is high though.

I almost have 2006 done, and 2007 soon.

We hope to put in a MySql database someday that will allow all the bells to play.

You should have dumped the problem on some computer geek in Manila for
$ 500 is 2 good months pay.

The Philippines people culture has a concentration problem. I have a sincere desire to not work.

Plus this is at best a 100 dollar problem for the USA person. There is also this, by the time I explained it, it would be done.

Here is something we did in the last 24 hours, or in about 2 hours or less.
2006 Table of Contents
2007 Table of Contents

For those who do not know, we are also working on putting up 8 Million cities, where a computer parse takes 24 hours to run.

Lot of toys.

Andy, I had not realized when I looked at your older indexes that they were in alphabetical order. Also that there is no date next to them.

Again, it is important to have a way to go through a Blog from older to newer, choosing the date to start at. There are many ways to do it, with indexes, with forward/back buttons or whatever.

I am old fashioned. I like my filenames to start with a sortable date such as 2008-01-07-fdfdfkj.txt I want to read things in order. I had a Blog way back when that would normally show the blog as most of them do, BUT if you wanted you could choose forward/backwards and any date range. So, if someone had not checked my site since November 15th, they could put that date in and read the posts in order. Something like Craig does at Travelvice.com is fine. Actually, even what you have here would be OK if the list of previous posts on the left went farther back and had posts after the current one. Hell, this should be SIMPLE.

Maybe the simplest thing to do would be to put in a "next" button, or even go in with HTML and put the address of the current post into the end of the last one. Then a reader could click on today's post, go backwards until he got to a post he has seen again and just use the back button as he reads it. HEY, WAIT A MINUTE, that can be done now. Duhhh. Sometimes my ranting will help solve a problem of mine.

Bob L

The example was a wordpress blog.

We need a blogger.com blog as examples.

The database behind the blog is what is difficult, not the HTML. The Sql database needs to be controlled and blogger.com is in control.

I did a quick search and found these. They all have a link to newer AND older posts plus they have some sort of clickable archive by year and month.

Understand that I am not complaining, just trying to help out and adjust my world to fit me better. 8^)


http://code.blogger.com/2007/10/reporting-and-tracking-blogger-api-bugs.html
http://truckhouse.blogspot.com/
http://juicedsportsblog.com/2008/01/im-a-blogger-powered-blog-of-note.html
http://carbonfund.blogspot.com/2008/01/heres-to-fewer-candidates-less-carbon.html
http://bnarelle.blogspot.com/2007/11/beware-talibank.html

Making Clickable Links
http://code.blogger.com/2007/10/reporting-and-tracking-blogger-api-bugs.html

http://truckhouse.blogspot.com/

http://juicedsportsblog.com/2008/01/im-a-blogger-powered-blog-of-note.html

http://carbonfund.blogspot.com/2008/01/heres-to-fewer-candidates-less-carbon.html

http://bnarelle.blogspot.com/2007/11/beware-talibank.html

Ok, now, I can look. I know a friend that has a blogspot with next and previous.

Note, there is HUGE security problem of just allowing a nitwit techie on the site.

Blogspot, I have tracked down the next to a blogspot feature. It is easy to do on Blogspot, but I am also not on blogspot.