by Frank McPherson, author of How To Do Everything With Windows Mobile

 
Not to long after Google aquired Blogger, changes were made to Blogger on the way to integration with the Google infrastructure. One of the changes that occurred is the way posts are archived. At one time Blogger automatically generated an index of archived posted, but that stopped some time in 2006 resulting in such an incomplete index that I removed the link to the archive page.

Ever since I discovered that the index was no longer working I have been pondering what to do. Bloggers answer is to put archive links in a nav bar on the screen, which I find don't render well on mobile devices and it is important to me that it be as easy to read this blog on a mobile device as it is to read on a PC. This evening a work around occurred to me that I am going to try, though it is going to take me some time to reconstitute the index.

What I am going to do is label each post with the year it was entered, which should result in Blogger creating a page indexing each article by year. Going forward this will be easy so long as I remember to add the year label, but I am going to have to go back and add labels to each post and then re-publish that post individually. We'll see how this goes. Oh, and I know I need to add some type of search capability here too. I am going to play around with some ideas on that as well.

Labels: 2007

posted by Frank at 11:14 PM 

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