Hello, World!
I thought I'd use this first post to explain the numbering scheme.
As you might expect, each post has an ID. This post's ID is 22.00.0001
.
Blog posts are breaking the rules they don't fit in the overall structure.
Imagine if every post had a Johnny.Decimal ID: 22.01
, 22.02
, and so on. My navigation tree would soon get out of control. And I'd run out of numbers quite quickly.
This is a nice example of why I save the 00
numbers. In this case I'm using 22.00
, which is the 'meta' ID for the blog category, as an ID to represent all blog posts.
Each post then gets its own supplementary ID, starting from 0001
. (I'm assuming I'll never write more than 10,000 posts.)1
Accessing the posts
The main site has a couple of IDs dedicated to viewing lists of posts.
There's 22.01
which is an index of all posts but only their titles.
If I add 'tags' to future posts, I might use 22.03
and upwards to show pages that list blog posts with a specific tag.
I'm just having a bit of fun with this
None of this was really necessary. :-)
Footnotes
-
Let's say I write a post a day. 365 days/year means I could easily hit 1,000 in a couple of years, but at the same rate I'd need to do that until the year 2050 to get close to 10,000. Unlikely. ↩