So! My site is at https://altheavalara.neocities.org where I am documenting the stories of past and current ongoing Final Fantasy games. It's a pretty simple site, mostly text based with a few images here and there.
The issue I am having is this: I have been working on the Missions stories for Final Fantasy XI, and right now have chosen to document an entire expansion's mission line on one page. Because this is lengthy, I've added "jump to" links so you can jump to a particular mission number.
Problem: I hand-coded these links, and that is a PAIN.
I am using Jekyll as my static site generator, and there's probably a way to do this better, but I can't think of how to insert the "jump to" section using Jekyll magic.
It *may* be possible if I break each page down into separate pages for each mission, and then I can use Jekyll magic for pagination, but I'd need to figure that out.
So my question is two fold:
1. Would it be better from a reader's perspective to have shorter pages but more pagination? Or is it fine to have long pages? 2. If it's fine to have long pages... does anyone have any idea how I can automate this a bit? I'm willing to use Python to generate a links list for me that I can then paste in the correct areas, but ideally I'd like to use Jekyll magic.
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Date: 2026-04-25 12:15 pm (UTC)So! My site is at https://altheavalara.neocities.org where I am documenting the stories of past and current ongoing Final Fantasy games. It's a pretty simple site, mostly text based with a few images here and there.
The issue I am having is this: I have been working on the Missions stories for Final Fantasy XI, and right now have chosen to document an entire expansion's mission line on one page. Because this is lengthy, I've added "jump to" links so you can jump to a particular mission number.
Problem: I hand-coded these links, and that is a PAIN.
I am using Jekyll as my static site generator, and there's probably a way to do this better, but I can't think of how to insert the "jump to" section using Jekyll magic.
It *may* be possible if I break each page down into separate pages for each mission, and then I can use Jekyll magic for pagination, but I'd need to figure that out.
So my question is two fold:
1. Would it be better from a reader's perspective to have shorter pages but more pagination? Or is it fine to have long pages?
2. If it's fine to have long pages... does anyone have any idea how I can automate this a bit? I'm willing to use Python to generate a links list for me that I can then paste in the correct areas, but ideally I'd like to use Jekyll magic.
An example of a page with the jump to links is this one: https://altheavalara.neocities.org/ffxi/rotz