I’m delighted to say that over the next week I’ll be guest-blogging at Pagan Sojourn, a blog that chronicles one person’s journey of curiosity into paganism. The blogger, Sojourner, is headed to New Orleans for a week to help out (good on Sojourner!); and I was kindly invited, along with three other bloggers of various faiths, to blog in the interim. We are currently deciding exactly which topics we’ll cover, so let me know if you have something you want to see addressed by myself, a Mahayana Buddhist, a Wiccan, and a Heathen.
Pagan Sojourn, by the way, is an excellent, well-written blog; its emphasis is on philosophical rumination applied to the practical problems of faith and life. Buried in the archives is a wealth of links and information on all kinds of paganism. I’ve had a great time browsing the site. I wish there were a site index! (But I’ve had a hard time keeping mine up to date, and it’s getting to an unweildly size, so I don’t blame Sojourner! Surely there must be some good way to show at a glance the information on a site and where to find it, without making the blogger continually update a huge index file. Does anyone have any ideas?…)
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I’m looking forward to guest-blogging with you this week – if your first post is any indication, we’re in for some good stuff
With site index, I’m not entirely sure what you mean. Are you talking about the main (index) page of a site; or are you talking about a site map? With my own blog, I try to keep everything managed by tightening up on my category labels. Beyond that, I guess I rely on users to utilize the search bar for more specific things. Or are you talking about something like what I did with my Rune series…a single page that serves as a table of contents of sorts for related posts? I think those tend to come in handy – when you know that you will be doing a series of posts on a specific topic – and they aren’t hard at all to set up.
Thank you! I liked your post, too — particularly the way you wove in the quote from Hávamál. But I’ll make my comments there!
I’m talking more about a site map, but something more comprehensive. Something like what you see if you click on Site Index under the Pages category on my sidebar. It’s like a book index.
For example, I have a couple of posts on linguistic taboos and deformations. You’d never know to search for it, and there’s no point in making a whole new category to cover two posts. You’d only find it if you happened to scroll down under the “Language” category. That’s probably fine for now, but as the site grows, it’s going to be harder and harder to make it work.
I do like what you did with your Rune series, and I’m considering doing that for “How to Choose a Religion” and other series.
You know what? I’m going to ask my sister-in-law — she’s a librarian.
LOL – a librarian in the family is something I wish I had access to!
Taking a look at your site index, I have to say I’m really impressed…the amount of work that must go into something like that would be considerable. I know that I won’t be putting something like that up for my blog, at least not manually…and even then only if it also included splitting the index into multiple pages as part of its automatic process, since having a page with a gazillion links can really tax bandwidth. Until such a time, or unless my readers start to really complain, I’ll be sticking with the archives, categories and search bar method of finding things.
With the portal page to my series posts, I actually got the idea from Hrafnkell’s series about Heathenry a while back…I wanted to spotlight the series on my own blog, but his series was fifteen pages and no single page existed to link them all. So I created one in a ‘spotlight’ post…then I started thinking sometime afterward how nice it might be to link all of my Rune stuff from one page. I did it in my old blog, then did it again in the new blog…amazing how ideas sometimes are born
LOL I wouldn’t even know where to start (or how to do it) to organize an index. I do have to say that it is a good idea, though, and that you have me thinking about it now.