If you look down to the bottom of my frontpage, you’ll see that my posts are divided over a couple of pages.

The nice thing about this way of paginating is that people can move to whichever page they want to. This also works with categories.

I was visiting John Chow’s “Rambling” category and I wanted to go to the first articles written in that category. There are 2 ways to do that:

1. Click on the Next link on the bottom of the page till you reach the end
2. Click on archives, find how many posts are in that category, divide that by the number of posts per page (at time of writing that is 328 posts, 10 posts per page = 32 pages), click on the category, and then scroll to the bottom, click Next 1 time, change the “page/2/” in the address bar to “page/32/”

Either way, you understand that this can be discouraging for visitors. I need to mention that this is something I see at a lot of big name bloggers. For some reason they did not pay attention to this part of the user experience.

Making a numbered pagination can give people to reach the end (or beginning) a lot faster.