(Die deutschsprachige Version von Blog-Navigation: Der »Artikel auf Seite x«-Link folgt weiter unten im Text.)

I am not comfortable with common blog navigation. What kind of navigation links do you get on a single post page? A link to the home page – good. Links to the next post and to the previous post — well, okay. Do we really need them? Have you ever seen people browsing through a blog with those links? They can be useful on blogs dealing with excerpts instead of full posts and especially on the first page of a blog, but most of the time we get those next post links and previous post links for the one reason that blog contents are generated by software that are able to put out those links. Dynamic content, big thing.

Tell you what I’m missing: the paging part. Blogs are chronologically structured, make use of links to single posts on other blogs and are well indicated by search engines. As a matter of fact a relevant amount of page visits hit on posts that aren’t on the home page of the blog any more. People spread on pages 2, 3, 4 or 27 and after that — concerning the navigation — they are lost.

I think we need to enhance blog navigation by links pointing to the page an entry is on.

»Entries on page x« links for WordPress

Den ganzen Artikel lesen: »Blog navigation: the »entries on page x« link«

After we’d started with DECAF° in 2004 we thought of getting some place for coffee breaks and the web stuff that was coming along with projects. For a while, it wasn’t that much content (asuming to fill a weblog) and we haven’t had that much »time« to write it down.. but from now on we’d love to talk about flexible multi-column forms, fluid layouts, gentle px, serious blog navigation, developing wordpress plugins, using Redaxo CMS, achieving social software, the mobile web, the web 2.0 senior edition, bad caffeine and more.

This one is blogging for interest, used to be our humble opinion and is starting right now. Think we’ll have cookies for the tea coffee.