Is Length Really Important?

Why Do So Many Bloggers Have Blog Pages That Are Miles Long?

I often research various topics on the web. I might be searching for the perfect image for something or some obscure fact and quite often I find links in my search to items within Blogs. Now of course I have to double check sources when I do find things, but often even having the page it is very hard to find the thing that was on that page without nearly having to use a search engine to search the page. That is because so many bloggers will have a blog page that is very long -- probably 3 to 4 times or more longer than my own blog.

Sometimes I wonder if my own blog pages are a bit long, but I do restrict mine to 7 articles per page. That was on purpose because then people would have an easier time hunting things down and not be constantly scrolling down and down and down again. It is a matter only perhaps of aesthetics, and perhaps my tastes are not widely held -- as are my preference to try to stick with Canadian English where possible.

I have no problem with articles of substance and length. I do worry that I am actually exceeding the limit of what I would consider a good length for a blog article, but I do try to keep things reasonable. Still when I am hunting down things and come across an article and image on a blog and I look at the scroll bar and see it shrink to less than the height of a lower case letter -- I start wondering if it is worth hunting through that blog for the small tidbit that might not even be what I am looking for.

I do remember when setting this blog up being asked how many articles I wanted on a page and considering that. Of course I remembered this issue of overlong pages and decided with trying to do a page a day that 7 articles would fit a weeks worth on a page which sounded about right.

But I am not sure what people are trying to do with scrolls of blogs that would take spools upon spools of parchment without end.

Later!
~ Darrell.

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Progress on PM Museum Blog

The museum blog is coming along well. I even got rid of the border around the images which mussed up ones which are supposed to be on a transparent background.

Content has bee a bit slow, but I'll have to work on that.

~ Darrell Wade / Belgnorman

Updated Port Moody Museum Blog

I took the plunge!

I updated the Port Moody Museum Blog to the newer “Layout” style rather than the “Template” style of doing things. It means that many things will be easier and there are new features that can be used.

However there was no exact copy of the museum's design so I had to do a best fit. The design is a bit narrower. The post area is 450 or so pixels wide rather than the 500 I had to play with before and actually I have to keep to 400 pixels wide maximum for graphics. Perhaps I can tweak things wider.

In the meantime I am going to do some modification of the blog entries to fit the Layout.

Still many things will be so much easier to manage with the newer layout system. This will be a godsend if I have to turn over the reigns to someone else for a time.

~ Darrell Wade / Belgnorman

Gnome Graphic

Howdy!

I'll probably end up doing without a title for the title on the museum blog site, but I can put in the museum welcome graphic that way.

If you are curious, the way I have the gnome graphic at the start of the messages is simply by having a graphic I made in advance and inserting the graphic on the left of the page. You have to insert the graphic from a URL instead of uploading it from your computer though. Otherwise it is stored as a png graphic and loses its transparent background. I think it has to do with they way they store uploaded graphics.

I do think I am nearly ready to convert the museum blog to the new system of design rather than the old template system. So the large part of the reason I created this blog for.

~ Darrell / Belgnorman