Comments on: Ditching ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ for Blog Navigation

By: bifold doors

bifold doors — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:07:35 +0000

Great post the older and newer way makes the flow easier.

By: jOHNSON

jOHNSON — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:13:43 +0000

@Brian Smith – its very necessary thing as per user perspective and also content spreading. if you add it then user can lead to another section of your media.

By: Brian Smith

Brian Smith — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:29:55 +0000

Why put next/previous or older/newer links on individual entry pages at all?

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Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:58:32 +0000

[...] First we had to decide how it should look, and which side would be for “Newer” and “Older”. This was surprisingly non-obvious. We thought carefully about our UI, discussed this great article by Ephram Zerb, and came up with something we liked. [...]

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:17:39 +0000

I wrote Restoring the reverse chronology with you in mind. You’ll see that I settled on “Older/Newer Posts” for the reverse chronological (i.e. homepage) navigation, and “Next/Previous” for permalink page navigation.

Because my titles can grow long (and it bothers me polluting Google with post titles on adjacent posts) I opted to just use the words Next and Previous as the link text, which have the added benefit of being a constant width if you’re surfing my archives. This of course is more meaningful if your posts are shorter and the next/prev links are positioned “above the fold”.

I notice that your homepage actually displays all your posts, so I’m curious how you’ll implement this in that context.

By: Joseph Hsu

Joseph Hsu — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:32:47 +0000

While browsing through blogs I have noticed this too. I become reluctant to click either because i’m not sure which direction I am going.
Thanks for sharing!

By: Artem

Artem — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:21:18 +0000

The older and newer way is more clear to me since I jump around blogs a lot nad each one is different. Older and Newer makes the flow easier to understand. Having one long page also is not a bad idea but after many months of posts it get’s long and finding specific posts becomes difficult. You should post more often!

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:12:34 +0000

Can you pls let me know how to get the actual titles of prev and next posts instead of the “Older post” and “Newer post” defaults which blogger gives?

By: Jonathan Nicol

Jonathan Nicol — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:49:49 +0000

I think the solution you have opted for gives the best of both worlds, and leaves little room for misinterpretation. I confess that without checking I was unsure which approach I used on my own blog, but a quick check confirmed that when browsing article abstracts (ie: on the homepage) I am using previous/next, and when reading a full post I have done away with any sort of forward/back navigation altogether (an option you hadn’t considered!). I couldn’t agree more that older/newer is more descriptive than previous/next, and in due course I will amend the wording of the links on my blog.

By: Ephram Zerb

Ephram Zerb — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:04:06 +0000

Matt, thanks for the background info. I have yet to really delve into navigating accross multiple pages, but undoubtedly “older” and “newer” will serve as a starting point for that design decision.