One continual usabilty issue I've had to cope with recently is my archive. To date, and including this post, I've blogged 411 times. As a result, the archives are somewhat large - back to October 2005 - and this has had a few things to think about. I hate clutter - and I especially hate the fact that the archives got so long and ruined the look of pages with short entries. So, I hid the archives entirely. I've been looking for some cool Javascript effect to hide and show the archives. I settled on scriptaculous and I have to say, I've been blown away at how relatively straight forward it has been to integrate this accordion like effect. It even works in IE 7 (thanks Larry!).

I'm thrilled at having the archives return, and hope you like their re-integration into the site - just don't spend too long toggling them continually in awe of the powers of Javascript (I did).

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