You could arrange archive blogs into categories, like a directory.

thanks in advance!

http://www.modelbuilding101.com mainly for college students but i have some other forums in there…

question is do you want to create a discussion or just review of work…….

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You can spend literally hours watching all those videos, and they’re only *one* click away from the front page.

There’s “blog” as in a news-oriented site, where the date is obviously important. I think the majority of our audience would only call news-oriented websites “blogs.”

But there’s also “blog” as in publishing platform. I think those of us who run one would call it a “blog.” But in terms of layout… well we’re simply running websites with blogging software. It shouldn’t necessarily have a blog format.

That’s my main reason why I have chosen a different system. I am using Textpattern (as an editorial system) which supports sections, categories and keywords. That’s the basic structure. On that base you can build plenty of buildings with different levels for your readers.

To make a short story short … it is very important to have an effective blog architecture in place before starting a website.

So instead, I’ve organised mine by category and genre, which is pretty unique as far as dream journals go. Each category has a detailed explanation, and each dream within the category has a brief explanation stating how it relates to that category. I have a link to the most current dream up on the main page, but my dreams are very long and I’d rather my readers only had to sift through the ones they’re actually interested by.

I’m not a fan of only organising by date, at least for dream journals.

An interesting idea would be to have some kind of view or sort page that would let you see a digg style interface, so you could switch between that view and traditional view. Maybe have it linked with a cookie so that the user’s preference could be kept.

Either that, or have a most recent posts widget keep track of the recent posts as a sideline, and have the most popular posts in the foreground.

Again, an interesting idea.

All blog content contains a variety of meta tags that could and should be used to facilitate custom navigation and displays. The reverse-chronological sequence is not necessarily the best or the worst, it’s just want we started with.

I use NEO (Nelson Email Organizer) to generate different views of my Outlook email messages and attachments. I have more than 40,000 messages stored in Outlook/NEO and can view them in ascending or descending chronological order. I can also view them by read or unread, by sender or recipient, by type of attachment, by subject, or category, or urgency, or any number of other meta data.

I would like to view blog content the way I view email content — anyway I want it with whatever filters I select. The only display layout not available in NEO that would be really cool in a blog organizer would be a mind map.

Mind maps present a GUI showing how abstract posts and comments relate or don’t relate to each other. It’s a powerful tool that lets the reader navigate with ease from “big picture” to organic detail and back.

The first blog service that offers a mind map view has my business.

Though I wouldn’t mind if the author still had chronological order in one section that lets me browse like normal, and had the homepage or wherever using a ‘best of’ thing, etc.

Still, I’m interested in how this topic would progress.

I have a full blog style page where current articles flow in reverse chronological order. I have the same thing with abbreviated snippets, and the same thing again in traditional index style.

I have “Most Popular” pages, by today, this week, this month and all time.

For each major section of my site, there’s a directory that lists all relevant articles. So if your only interest is Mac OS X, you go to /MacOSX/index.html , and if it’s Linux you love, then /Linux/index.html has your articles.

Of course we have Search – Google’s and my own highly optimized Swishe search.

Only want to check comments? No problem. I have a page for that.

I also offer listings by less popular tags, and for the really bored, there’s always the Random Page picker..

Give ‘em whatever the heck they want..