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. I wanted to give them some sort of identifier but in the context of the broader site 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 shows the full content of the latest posts, and 22.02 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
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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. ↩