Linking within actinic

[aliscot]

How easy is it to create links to product pages (within my actinic site)from my home page? eg at the moment I am promoting some new products and simply want to be able to click on the product name and it will take the customer straight to the relevant page in actninic? Thanks.

Ali

[jont]

Very easy.

create a fragment with the details and under the "link" tab tick the box and enter the link text eg "click to see products" and select the page or products against the radio buttons.

Back in the text area of the frgament enter [LINK] and it will replace that with "click to see products"

[aliscot]

Yippee!! Thanks Jon. Just tested it at the bottom of my home page. You must get quite a laugh at some of my posts because I am such an idiot with this stuff! I may have a degree, two kids, and three jobs, but an IT mind I do not have! Best wishes.

Ali

[jont]

Rather than using "click here" you are best using keyword text eg: "IXON Hi-Fi Cables" etc as this will benefit the search engine placements

[aliscot]

thanks jon. I've done this at the bottom of my home page at 'delivery information'. How do I make the linked text stand out eg bold?

[jont]

Just had to trial and error that myself as the hyper link is the default tag.

Try:

!!<<span><b>>!![LINK]!!<</b></span>>!!

[aliscot]

Thanks Jon. Will give that a try.

[aliscot]

I can put single links on my home page using the [LINK] function. How do I link a complete list of products, each to the relevant page on my site? Do I have to complete a new fragment for each product?

Ali

[Duncan Rounding]

There may be more elegant ways but you can put html code in the fragment text such as this:

!!<
<b><a href="http://www.linkdomain1.co.uk/
" target="_blank"></b>
<br>
<b><a href="http://www.linkdomain2.co.uk/
" target="_blank"></b>
>!!

[aliscot]

Thanks - will give that a go.

[jamescheema]

might be slightly off topic, but i'm trying to create a links page which can be accessed through 'about us'. To do this could i open act_primary, manually hard code the links into the main form, and then save this as something like 'links.htm' ?

[jont]

If just linking from the about us page then simply use something like:

!!<<a href="links.html">Links page</a>>!!

in the text fragment in the "about us" section and link through to a brochure page called "links" filled with text fragments containing your links to the outside world.

This will save having to modify the links page if you change the Act_Primary in future and will also retain all the navigation to get to the rest of your site again