Cyril Dangerville

The question should be "HOW TO CUSTOMIZE your BLOG INDEX IN A FLASH". Indeed, your index is right there already, in your personal weblog site. You just click on Archives, and you get your index. You don't have the dates in the list? Let Movable do it for you. I'll try to make it easy.
After RTFM (type "index" in the search tool), you find out that you have to modify the Master Archive Index. After logging in, click on Templates then Master Archive Index in the list. In the template body, look for the first occurence of:

<MTArchiveList>
[blablablabla]
</MTArchiveList>

Then, if you just want to add the date before the entry title with a new line (<br/> in HTML), make sure it looks like:

<MTArchiveList>
<li class="archive-list-item"><$MTArchiveDate$><br/>
<a href="<$MTArchiveLink$>"><$MTArchiveTitle$></a>
</li>
</MTArchiveList>

I just inserted <$MTArchiveDate$><br/> (22 characters), not more. That's the power of the template. You can use different attributes for MTArchiveDate to modify the date format or the language (RTFM).
Now that you feel like a master, you want to increase your power, so you want to number the list (because Dr. Groom told you so. Sorry, no inside joke on the blogs? Too late). (Footnote for non-CICS: Dr. Frank Groom teaches ICS 630: Research Methods where he insists on the necessity to number the list of subjects in the random sampling process.) In this case, you have to change the lines before and after the MTArchiveList element:

<ol class="archive-list">
<MTArchiveList>
<li class="archive-list-item"><$MTArchiveDate$><br/>
<a href="<$MTArchiveLink$>"><$MTArchiveTitle$></a>
</li>
</MTArchiveList>
</ol>

I just changed 2 letters: o instead of u in <ul...>. Example of the result of this change. You can now copy-paste in one shot the whole index or just give the link as I did, when you want to give your blog index. You don't have to waste a blog for it.
I hope at least it helps the geeks that still have to get a blog index.

Quod Erat Demonstrandum.