Linking to other sites

[KenWheeler]

I've searched existing threads but can't find the answer I'm looking for. In the default setup for Actinic there is a fragment in the brochure 'More Pages' which is entitled 'Links'. I assumed that a list of links to other relevant web sites would be simple to set up under this heading but I can't work out how to do it. Help please?

[Duncan Rounding]

You could create another brochure page for Links and then delete that fragment. Then add fragments into the new Links page containing the links you want.

[NormanRouxel]

Also, if you know HTML, you could write a list of links yourself. Then embed them into a fragments description by enclosing them with the special Actinic tags !!< and >!!

E.g.

!!<
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk">The news</a>
<br>
<a href="http://security.microsoft.com">The latest 1000 bugs</a>
>!!

[Charles Bastari]

"Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear to Tread"

I am not trying to one up Norman by any means (no way), but I did discover this thread posting by Jont when I was learning to set up my links page and I think it contains something worthwhile for you to know.

For links pages checkout http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=17765

A common trick is to embedd the HTML link into the text field of a fragment of a product description field eg:

!!<<a href="http://www.site.com" target="_blank">Link to funky site</a>>!!

The target="_blank" part will open the linked page in a new browser window thus insuring that the person clicking on the link will still have your page in view in the original browser window.

c

[RuralWeb]

If you are setting out on a link marketing campaign then adding/monitoring links by adding them into fragments is lot of work. An easier method is to use software such as Arelis to manage everything for you. You build a template to match your site and it does the rest.

[chris ashdown]

Malcolm

What method do you use to transfer the link generated page in "Arelis" into Actinic, I assume you just cut and paste or is there another way?

[RuralWeb]

The links are stored within Arelis and a template is created based on your Actinc design. Within Arelis you manage your links ie who you want to link to, if they link back, images, text etc. When you are ready to upload the links pages you generate the html pages using Arelis, you then use ftp to upload the pages.

To link to the main website you simply put a link to the Arelis pages in your Actinic template. The whole of your links pages are outside of Actinic, if you were to use Actinic for a linking campaign it would soon become unmanageable - arelis will also check if your link is still on the reciprocating site so you can remove links if needed.

There is an upgrade out soon which will show the page rank and Alexa rank for potential link partners.

For those who have multiple sites there is a version which will build links for an unlimited number of websites.

[KenWheeler]

Thanks very much to all contributors - very helpful.

Ken