Using Blogger- Archiving

Saturday, October 11, 2008

One of the advantages of online journals is that the writer is freed
from the worry of keeping track of his earlier posts. A prolific
blogger, had he been using pen and paper, would be quickly bur-
dened with the need to find storage space for the stacks of journals,
and once stored, retrieving would be another bother. For blogs, this
is a non-issue. Earlier entries can be periodically archived, so
unwanted clutter can be avoided on the blog page. At the same time,
they can be easily accessed.
Under the Archiving link in the Settings tab, you can choose
the frequency with which this archiving occurs. Entries that are
archived are visible under the Archives link on the blog.
Under the same link, you can also decide whether to allocate
one page per post. Doing this allocates a URL to each blog entry.
Compared to having many blog entries on a single page, the one-
page-per-post layout allows readers to go directly to a specific post
without scrolling through an entire page of posts trying to find
the one they want to look at. The flip side is that there will be a lot
of clicking to be done if someone wants to read through a week of
posts. It is recommended you use the one-page-per-post layout if
your posts tend to be about a page in length; if you only jot a few
lines in most of your posts, it is better to avoid this layout.