Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Authors, anyone?


We've just become aware that recently a few new people have been taking a peek at this site, and so first of all we want to welcome them--as well as give a hi-howdy to anyone who's dared to venture back here after recent problems with downloading and listening and story selection. We still have a backlog of things we want to accomplish--and must admit it might take a long time or never. What we'd really love is an Author's List so one could navigate to any particular entry with ease, but there doesn't seem to be any easy way for us Bloggers to do that. (Well, we could hand-stitch it, but that would take a very long time.) If anyone out there could show us how to create an index efficiently, please let us know! In the meantime, don't forget that there is one easy way already to find an author or topic, so easy that we've often forgotten it ourselves--just use the "Search This Blog" feature at the top of the page. Of course, if you don't know which authors or stories we've already featured, this might not be too helpful--but if the author or story you're looking for has already been presented, that search feature should lead you right to that page or those pages.

We'll be looking for more ways to improve this site as we go along. Sorry if the pages are getting a little more cluttered with options nowadays (more than we like, actually), but in an effort to "maximize our potential" and cooperate with the many methods of listening on- or offline, it looks like more clutter is the way to go. You might note that we now feature the timing of new entries (and will try to update previous ones, although Blogger updating can be very slow). And in the future we promise to have readers always say "The End," just in case there might still be any confusion. (After all, quite a few stories do have unexpected or abrupt endings.) Any further suggestions?

One other note: all of our entries past and present have been encode to 48 or 56 kbps, in an effort to balance file size with quality. Being that these are only monophonic voice recordings, that seems to work for us, but does it for you? We do wonder when our ISP server space will run out, even if we don't quite understand all these technical things...

Thanks as always for reading these bothersome notes.

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1 comment:

Jane said...

Hi Scoot,
It seems that blogger likes to do its indexes by title and date. I can't a way around it. Unfortunately, on my own blog I did not use consistant titles (it is mostly photos). So their options don't help me. But here are a couple of links I found in my search for a better way:

How can I list my archives by title?
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42209&query=index&topic=0&type=f

What is the difference between archive pages and the archive index?
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41413&query=index&topic=0&type=f

How do I list the titles of all posts on a page?
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=41486&query=index%20title&topic=0&type=f