either teach them enough HTML to do this themselves, or use something like
soEditor that will allow for links to be added, or write your own
javascript for adding a link. If the 3rd option, I'm thinking something
like a textarea, with a button above it for Insert Link. Clicking that
either adds some pseudo-html into the textarea (e.g. [link
url=http://www.yoursite.com]link text here[/link] - similar to how it
works in forums like phpBB), or opens a popup that asks for a URL and Link
Text. This would then get inserted as HTML to the textarea.
James
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Thanks Damian.
A bit of twist on my original question.
What if the client wanted to add a link in the middle of the short
description area?
So something like:
This is a short description from www.macromedia.com to tell the user what
they should expect by clicking the link. How would you do this?
Or would I just need to tell them that they've got to put the links in a
particular place?
Cheers,
JamesB
P.S. I'm trying to avoid any third party software or educating the user ;)
From: Damian Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 May 2004 13:09
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] User adding their own links - Suggestions
James... what I generally do is:
a) text field where they enter the URL- required
b) a link title (text field) required
c) a short description (textarea) optional
This would then output on the public site as:
This is my link title
www.link.com
This is a short description to tell the user what they should expect by
clicking the link.
HTH
d
-----Original Message-----
From: James Buckingham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 May 2004 12:32
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [ cf-dev ] User adding their own links - Suggestions
Afternoon everyone,
I've been asked to create a few pages for a client which will allow
them to add/edit/delete a list of 'useful' links on another page.
I'm sure this is a very common request but I was wonder what the best
way of creating such a system would be. Any recommendations?
The clients who will be using this are completely non-technical/HTML
users so the system has to be very simple.
Can they simply just add http://www.macromedia.com to a text field and
that would do the trick OR is there something I should be aware of by
doing it this way?
Appreciate your feedback.
Cheers,
JamesB
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