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07/06/07

Permalink 05:24:10 pm, 248 words, 533 views   English (UK)
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I have never come across a blog that can be accessed back to front. The reason being that blogs are now! and meant to be read now, not in a year's time. They are news. And quite frankly a reverse blog would be useless to me because it's rare that two posts are linked, other than in my "log" category.

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I checked on blogger.com, the theoretical daddy of all blogs, and they talk about setting up your novel as a blog, but it's to be posted when complete, not written online, and the chapters are set up as a series of links.

Trackback links, which I haven't yet investigated, may provide a part of the answer, but it won't do what you want it to do.

You should look upon your blog as exactly what it is, a weblog. You don't write it back to front, and because it is what it is, it's not meant to be read that way.

Your archive may also help. At the bottom of your blog pages, you'll find your posts are archived on a per month basis. On blogger, when you get to the end of the year, you'll find they should be annually archived too.

The only other solution is the page url. Each page should have an individual url. You can point readers to a specific start point using the url, but then on every page, you would need the url of the next post in the series.

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Comment from: sarah_james [Member] Email · http://www.milltech-systems.co.uk
Is it me or is part of this missing? It appears to end on "and because it is..."
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