[support] How to insert links to other pages on the same site?

[cl at isbd.net]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:48:35PM -0500, Simon Swegles wrote:
> 
> 
> cl at isbd.net wrote:
> > The trouble is not so much that it's particularly difficult to embed
> > links but that what seems (to me at least) to be such a fundamental
> > part of what the web is about has to be done with an add-on of some
> > sort or another. 
> > 
> > ... and when you've done it you can't really see what the result looks
> > like.
> > 
> Fundamentally, the Web requires links to be presented via anchor tags. 
> Anchor tags are allowed by the default input format. If you want it to 
> be pretty, add a class to your anchor tags and make the necessary 
> adjustment to your style sheet. It takes only seconds to type out a 
> typical anchor tag, and requires no hoop-jumping or additional modules.
> 
... and you want non-technical users to do this?  Yes, I *know* that
the 'designer' can do this and thus make it easy but to have something
so ordinary need the designer to come along and edit 'techie' things
seems all wrong to me.

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)