says
goodbye
to useless calendars
:
“But as I begin to redesign my MT templates, it occurs
to me that I never use the monthly calendar to access previous
posts–on my own site or any other site I visit. And, a quick check
of my blogroll revealed that only a third of the sites displayed
the standard weblog calendar on their main page.”
i’ve always been a bit suspicious of the merits
of the calendar myself, considering that i have
never
– not once – in my years and years of perusing weblogs, used the
calendar to search or browse for archived posts. ever.
jonathan also alludes to his disdain for weekly archives. while i
agree that monthly archives cut down on the returned search
results, they also balloon the size of the returned result. for
many of my pages, i’m forced to go with weekly archives because
monthly archives could be over 100k a piece, which is mighty hefty
for visitors that suck bandwidth from a straw.