Next!
by darph
It is always surprising to me in just how many ways people can make even the most simple things hideously complicated. A blog is, by definition, a series of publications or posts ordered in a timely fashion. Newest first, oldest at the end of the row. One usually starts reading the newest piece and continues reading, progressing back in time with each post.
Now having 200 blog posts on one html site might be possible, but, I guess we all agree, is kind of inconvenient. After all, we’re not talking about the endless click orgies of modern news papers’ websites. Thus:
Enter pagination.
What kind of brain-pygmies on pixie-dust would call the pagination link that sends you to an earlier point in time “next page” and the one that leads you back to the top of the stack towards the newest posting “previous page”
Previous and Next in a blog makes no sense at all!
This confuses me every. single. time.
Call it “newer” and “older” for cryin’ out loud, after all, we’re talking about a time bar, not a book of pages. This is completely contradictory to how a book works anyway: “Next” pages go forward in time. (Unless, of course you tell a story backwards, but then still you’re progressing the story forwards, so my point still stands.)
Your blog is not a book. If I progress to the next page, I expect the next posting and not the previous one!
Jesus Christ! It’s not that hard!