How to make blog feeds more accessible

I never liked the way my old Blogger Blog worked. I didnt like the archives as it mad stuff hard for people to get to.

Peters blogging engine (in use here and at www.cftopper.com) is built upon our existing CMS system. I like the tags and the archives by months but I dont like the way the feeds get lost after you place more then 9 or so on the home page.

I am going to use the side nav to place the following:

• This Month
  - Week 1...n
    - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
• Archives (Current Year)
   - Month 1
  -  :
   - Month n
• Previous Years (Link to page with feeds categorised and searchable)

I am also going to limit the frontpage to just todays posts and if none are found then start placing the last 4 posts.

My posts tend to be long enough and I dont like a really long page......

Other things that need fixing:

• Pinging sites when a post is added
• Fix post tree in CMS section
• Windows App to post to blog