You keep a blog. Admit it, you do; most people who read blogs also write them. So explain to me, then, what’s up with your archives? If I click on your December link, for example, why am I staring at December 31 at the top of the page and have to scroll all the way down to get to December 1 at the bottom? You don’t really think I’m going to read it backwards, do you? You know I’m going to start at Dec 1 and work my way up, right? Which is just wrong.

My archives don’t work that way and yours shouldn’t either. Mine are configured such that when you click on December you end up with Dec 1 staring you in the face, and then you scroll down for Dec 2 and then down for Dec 3 and so on. As Evelyn Wood intended. The only page on my site that’s configured backwards is the entry page, and that’s so the most recent entry is the first one you see — because that’s the one you want to see. Everywhere else is configured so you can read it naturally.

Go fix yours. Now.