I've got a Furtopia site up already for exhibiting my stories and I've decided it's high time to redesign it. At the moment it's all hand-coded and difficult to maintain; I have, also, gotten a couple negative comments about how it looks.
What I want to figure out is the best way to present long stories. I can see a few options and probably I can't please everyone. I hate having to scroll through huge files, for example, so I've attempted to break my stories up by hand into pages each with at most a few screenfuls of text. Others hate clicking "next" a hundred times and prefer reading one file. To be fair I post a link to a single-file version but, the way the site is now, I have to maintain it separately. I'd like to work out a way dynamically to generate pages from a single file.
I'm asking for opinions on what's preferable. The stories I'm putting up range in length from a few pages to novella length.
Do you like to see one long file? A file broken up only into a few pieces? Into many pages? Do you want a table of contents into long stories? Do you want that table to be visible at all times (as a side bar or something) or not?