I’ve made a change to the posting structure of my journal entries, to fall, yes, I agree, more in line with the masses. As I read more and more online journals, I see that the de facto standard is to post the most recent entry at the top of the page, moving all previous entries, as they get older and older, further down.
I’ve done this only with the journals from 2005 so far, as there weren’t that many of them, and I have to consider whether I want to do this with the rest of the journal too. I had originally considered the formatting structure when I redid the look of the journal about a year and a half ago, and I chose to keep the entries in a more narrative format, so that you could read from the top to the bottom in chronological order as though you were reading a book. I’ll have to see if this change helps me to post more often.
Another consideration is whether to start using some sort of, damn I hate using this word (see below), blogging software. A lot of weblogs advertise the fact that they were created with some sort of blogging software, like Blogger, Movable Type, or WordPress. Anyone have any thoughts on these tools? I think that they would make things easier, as I currently type in HTML directly with a simple text editor and upload using either FTP or an SCP client such as WinSCP.
Of course, all of that describes what I do when making changes via my Windows laptop, and that’s going away soon, as some of you might know. I’m going to have to get familiar with updating again on my OSX laptop, which isn’t a bad thing at all. I started this website on that machine anyway, and besides that machine is mine.