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Chris

Hi Mark, I’ve added a number of comments to this blog at various times, so you know I think it’s a useful resource. But one major problem is that there is now a huge number of posts, and they are not in chronological order. For example, I clicked on ‘reply’ to your post today about someone else’s reply to someone etc etc, but as I’m writing this the first two posts I can see above are dated March 18th & 19th. So I have no idea where to find your post, or any of the others referred to, without spending 10mins scrolling through all the hundreds of posts. Maybe my ignorance of how the blog works, So I’d be grateful if you could tell me whether it’s possible to set all posts in date order. If not then I suggest it should be.
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Mark

Hi Chris It’s certainly something I’m aware of and to be honest, I’m not too sure about how to go about transferring to a better format. I’ve built several websites over the years but never really dealt with one like this. On top of that, I kind of picked up the baton when the previous admin dropped out and I’m reluctant to put too much money into this when I don’t have much to spare. I’ll have a chat with the web designer who did my http://www.buildingguide.co.nz site and see if he can come up with some ideas… Stand by (I don’t always work fast but I do get there eventually…).
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Alex

Totally agree, perhaps you have a separate stream for different building companies. E.G 1 for GJ, 1 for stone wood etc so people thinking about building with a particular company can look at all the reviews about them. Or some way to do a search on the blog. i think this is one of the only review places on the net for NZ now that buildreview.co.nz has vanished.
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Michael Thompson

For any web page (including this one) ctrl-F gets the search box up, put in GJ to get, for example, 206 references (at time of writing), then use the arrows to find each one…and read them! Sure hope there’s fewer to read for Signature!
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