First, I want to add a blogHome page to Kim Parker's blog.

blogHome was something Kyle worked on, adapted from code I had written for the Scripting News home page. So it's something I am familiar with in concept but not in JavaScript. I want to learn how it works, find possible glitches, things that should be fixed before we deploy too widely.

I want another page type that displays all the posts in a given month. Call it blogMonth? I used to have this on Scripting News, but when I did the last transition, I never got it working. As a result you can see the Archive page ends in September 2012.

A monthly view is very useful. I remember I wrote something in July or was it August. Go to each page in the browser, and search. Or if I'm hunting for a graphic to use in the right margin, it's nice to be able to scroll a month at a time. This is actually how I do it.

And what would be extremely cool about this feature is this -- you could easily generate a menu for all the months. A very neat and tidy way to handle it. And it would take a few years before that menu item became unwieldy.

Not entirely sure exactly how all the pieces fit together here, but this is one of the things I'm thinking about today.