By Floob on

Hi,

Is there a recommended way to create a links page?
Is it simply to create a 'Page' and create a menu title of Links to add in the navigation bar?

Thanks

Floob.

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jefke33’s picture

jefke33 commented

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...

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silverwing commented

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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Drupalace-1 commented

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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3duardo commented

Hi,

I was looking around for some advice on this very issue and I like the idea of doing the links page with CCK and views.

I was wondering about using pretty links (i'm not sure what to call them!) where the link name is displayed as the link without showing the actual url.

Ideally, I'd have a selection list to choose the link category as well so that the view can display an alphabetical list of each of the links in each category etc

Any suggestions on how to approach this?