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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Paging is separating out content to multiple pages, and it is a really common task for websites. The problem is that like oh so many things on the web, it is rarely done well. Come with me on this journey (rant?) on the correct way to implement paging.
Each page should have a “Next” and “Previous” button. If you are referring to chronological content, such as blog posts, use “Newer” and “Older” to be more specific. They should be the most prominent part of the paging area, since anyone interacting with that area of the page will most likely be going back and forth through the results.
There should also be a list of the pages in between the next/previous button.
Here is an example from Bubble Burster website:
An example of using Newer and Previous buttons
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
I have been using Lunarpages for over a year now and I really love it. I first started using it for work, and then for my personal sites like this one. I have really enjoyed it and will definitely be using it for a long time to come. It is what I recommend to anyone that dare ask my opinion.
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
I finished up the Bubble Burster website today. You can find it at bubble.davidbeckblog.com. I built it with WordPress (same as this site) but I made the theme myself and wrote and edited several plugins to get it just right.
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
If your OCD like myself, and also suffer from the need to make websites, you may have run into this pesky problem when you lay out images and what not on a page. The problem comes when you try to mathematically determine the exact right padding so that all the objects are laid out evenly only to find that the last one falls off the end to the next line.
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