It’s time to bring Sprinters From The Tree (and eventually the whole website) to more current format – a blog. From a webmaster’s perspective, there are many underlying reasons I won’t bore you with, but the 3 most important ones are backup, ease of searching inside the blog, and better search engine results (like Google and Bing). Though Jeffrey has his reservations, it will ultimately make his job easier as well.
There is more than one way to read a blog. The first is if you really don’t want to learn how to use a blog/news reader, then you can just come to the website, click on the blog link, and read the articles. On the right side, you’ll see links to years, months, articles. Clicking on the tiny arrow, will expand the choices. By default, the current month is expanded. The articles are in the order they were posted, reverse chronologically, just like the years.
The other way is to use a blog reader. GoogleReader was the best in my opinion, but they eliminated it. Rather than tell you all about the alternatives, Lifehacker has an article doing that. You can skip over “step one” in that article as it is now moot. Note that in the “For Everyone Else” section there’s even a link on how to use Outlook as a reader. Personally, I use The Old Reader for some blogs, and Netvibes for others. The Netvibes link is in the “For Everyone Else” section. I like these two the best as they seem to be the closest to the old GoogleReader. Your preference may be much different.
The single most important thing you will need, regardless of which blog reader you use, is the “feed” address. You want to use https://www.bassettbranches.org/newsblog/feed when the blog reader asks you for that information.
The Splinters From The Tree archives through 2013 (including December) will remain on the website indefinitely. Starting now (actually started in October), the articles will be in the blog format. If you use a reader, you’ll get notified every time an article is posted, whether that’s one a week, or 6 times a month or (fill in the blank); – whenever Jeff gets one done he’ll give it to me to post.