Chronological Blogging
Posted in Geek, User Experience on September 11th, 2007 by leodirac – Be the first to commentBlog engines always display posts in reverse-chronological order. This is appropriate if the content stales quickly and readers are mostly interested in what the most recent thing is. But it’s often unhelpful if you want to use the blog engine to develop a static piece of content. In many such cases, the author wants the reader to consume the content in the order it was written. Examples of content that works better this way include: Stories or fiction Instructional content Reference material For all of these, first-time visitors should be presented with the first post, which would include the most…
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