Alright guys, I am really new to Drupal and i'm just getting things starting to work... I have a e-mail account through my web hosting called "web mail" it requires me to log into my control panel to access it but i would like to make a link in the menu on my website that is only visible to the Admin and when i click it, it takes me to my e-mail for my site... is this easy? and also how hard would it be to make it say if i have a new e-mail similar to how Hotmail has a link that says you have X amount of new e-mails....? would this be a custom module?

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vm’s picture

create a menu item in adminsiter -> menus
add it to your administrator menu

kerazyguy’s picture

Awesome! that was super easy :) not to haggle or anything but can i make it open it in a new window?

vm’s picture

with the extlink.module maybe

kerazyguy’s picture

well, all that does is put a little img showing me that it is an external link... i want to make it open in a new tab or window ... but i do not know if this is possible... im thinking it would have to be through the path but not sure.

vm’s picture

Incorrect. Please take the time to read the readme.txt and the project page which clearly defines that there is more to the module than what you've explained above. Ensure to set the module up properly and all external links (links with the little image) will open in a new browser window as they do on every site I deploy the module on.

•Configure external links to open in a new window.

The above quoted from the project page.

kerazyguy’s picture

Oh man my bad! i did not see that! I had read the "readme.txt" but aparently not well enough I had read this and thought it did'nt do what i wanted it to do...

The External Links module is a very simple approach to adding icons to links
to external websites or e-mail addresses. It is a purely JavaScript
implementation, so the icons are only shown to users that have JavaScript
enabled.

Aparently i need to get better at reading but in all fairness it was late lol thanks again and it works great!
-Justin