@Kroc
Thank you for responding, the issue of managing URLs for a blog is much clearer to me now. Honestly, I think my patterns were poisoned with what comes packaged with pre-baked blogging tools, I am glad I was able to receive some tips on the matter before implementing it. Frankly, I thought that browsing by date was a bit superfluous even, this new information raised the question about it even being added seeing that in practice it doesn't serve any use and only duplicates content (perhaps if I were to develop a search, something like a filter could be added, but that's completely other thing). In any case, thanks for your help and time, it has been truly informative.

@Gerben
That sounds interesting, however I want the focus to stay on the item a page currently displays. A rearrangement and resizing of elements is what I am planning to do to increase the focus and bring up the shorter items to size