Ron. Articles are already categorised by area if you go to the article section the links are on the right. Although they seem pointless to me.

I've got your db but not had time to look yet. It's flagged in my inbox for attention.

As many (all ?) have said. Leave the articles in and available, but by all means re-do their presentation / access

The title can certainly be changed, why not make it just 'The Archive' or 'The Attic' (if that's where you keep all your old junk ...)

Whilst you're about it and since you have such a lot of spare time why not provide a simple up front categorisation of old articles eg

Lotuscript [10]

Javascript [9]

etc

OK ! Don't hit me (:-)

To deal with those articles that you feel are irrelevant these days then include an *outdated technique* or *depracated* category.

I'm sure you've not written anything that you are actually ashamed of and wish you hadn't, but if you have then join the club. The difference is that most of us don't leave our embarassment in public view.

Regards

Ron

PS Did you get a chance to look at the editing Domino HTML forms demo ? If anyone else would like to look at it then they can email me at

ryuen [at] rynet [dot] co [dot] uk and I'll pass it on.

To me, the truth appears pretty simple: Everything, that has a date on it (In a clearly identifyable format, I should add. If unavoidable, even the odd american formatting will do.) can be considered helpfull to somebody at some point.

So, as this criterion is easily met by all of Jakes articles, I still support the idea of presenting links to aging content in a prominent place. Be it hand-picked or by some inteligent randomizing.

I wanted to see this because I'm doing something with PHP at work and it IS the only article I remember which, I hoped, did what I wanted - and it did. I was going to ask you to mark this as this week's/month's article revisited, as since you wrote the article support for "onbeforeunload" events have been available to Firefox since 0.9.

However, I figure if I can find it so can others. Maybe if you still use aspects of articles you wrote years ago, you could link to them in your posts either to remind us that there are now better methods or that this is still a good way to go - maybe you could get us to vote for old articles we still refer to - I'm rambling.

Who are we to tell you how you should structure your site - its yours, you're your client.

From a user perspective, I always come to Codestore first, every morning. My problem is finding the snippet I was after, but mostly that's my memory not your search facility's fault.

As for your site in particular, I would suggest you mark articles you think "worthy" of revisiting, then check them at least to the point of adding comments to say "Possibly superceded by AJAX techniques" or that sort of thing, "Only valid pre-Notes 7.0". Then randomize the display (in all your spare time) in the Revisit section.

Or, as you say, just remove the section. It is your site, do as you will, but thanks for all the valuable content.

I say leave it in. I mean, occasionally as you grouse and say, "What a poor, poor man was I" when you see that old article, it's often good to see how much you've changed, and how far you (and us as a community) have come.

Also, it's a great way for new visitors to your site to see that, wow, there's a lot of good info here! Start digging!

As for the randomisation of this selection, why not give yourself the ability to mark those articles that deserve airtime further on down the line.

I've taken so much from your articles in the past, but I'm sure there's more that I don't have the time to look for. This might be a way of pushing little gems from the past to the front page now and again.

Just a thought. Keep up the good work!

To catch your example, not so long ago I read a number of blog entries somewhere dealing with accessibility and JS free applications. Just can't remember the name of the site ...

Furthermore, codestore is a great resource to starters as well. Praising how easy it is to implement drag 'n' drop doesn't help much, if someone just starts his programming career. Some simple but good style examples will help here.

Add this to the fact that an article date of 2000 indeed DOES look cool and there you go.

Leave it in. There is a date on each of the articles. Let your visitors make the decision if the information is still valid for them or not.

Thank you.

I occasionally see something there which catches my eye. How often do people go trawling through your archive of articles? Not many I suppose.

It's amazing how often Codestore has come up when I've googled for a specific search term. I think that is how most people get to the articles.

So leave the revisited section there. And leave the old articles in place as well. Although you could if you want add a "this has been superceded by..." entry to them.