Creating a links page?

Indeed, the simple way seems to be to create a page, and put the links in there manually. A somewhat 'less simple' way to do it is to use CCK for creating "link" nodes, and using views to display them. I guess this will give you more freedom with regard to your links, afterwards, but it requires a bit more involvement...

is it simply a page for you to add links to, such as a personal 'blogroll' or do you want users to be able to add links as well?

It can be easy as mentioned (creating a page and adding links manually) or more complicated (CCK). (I've gone the complicated route here using node types for links and views to display.)

~silverwing

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On my Drupal site (sig below), I used a single Page as my links page. Works fine for many sites.

But I'm coming to better appreciate the method of making each link a node, and using Views to construct a link page from those nodes. One main benefit: when I stumble across a link that I quickly want to add, I can use my external blog editor software to create a new link node, with appropriate tags, super-quick; upload, and it'll be added to my Views-constructed link page. Another benefit I can see: you can give users permissions to create link nodes of their own, rather than having to worry about how to limit users' access to one single links *page*.

To implement links as nodes, you can create a new CCK node type of your own, or use one of several modules that do the same. In experiments, I disliked a couple of those, for reasons I don't recall; overall, I prefer the Jan's Node module. (Tip: Change the node type name to remove that nasty apostrophe; it's caused me display problems in some areas.)

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