[support] how to add links as content types or nodes?

[Richard Brown]

Hi Will

On 29/01/07, Richard Brown <rich at cregy.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > what i am asking is for a node itself to be a link. for example, if you
> > look at this page:
> > http://www.theicarusproject.net/resources/web-links
> >
> > you will see a page with a long weblink directory of organizations and
> > urls. however, we coded this in html! users can't add to it, it can't be
> > sorted, it's hella hard to maintain, etc.
> >
> > now imagine that each link was its own special node with a small teaser
> > and url, and the page was instead a view showing all "content type =
> > links". sorted alphabetically, by taxonomy keywords, etc. and that users
> > could search a taxonomy term and all the pages, blog posts, events,
> > images AND weblinks tagged with that term would show up with their
> > teasers. differently than page teaser views which are bigger.
> >
> > i.e. weblinks as nodes.
> >
> > does this make sense now? see the limitation we are facing? we want to
> > provide a ton of weblinks as resources with teaser blurbs for pages like
> > the Web Links page.
> >
> Could I suggest you take a look at:
> <http://category.greenash.net.au/node/91>
> It seems to me that if you use a category in your case say web links
> and then create blog posts and link them to web links you can recreate
> what you want.
>
> I am starting just such an exercise here:
> <http://lostwithiel.eu/>
> Whilst I have only set up one category that of antiques in the right
> hand column, eventually there will be more. (I might even try to get
> more in so you can see it happening).
>
> I hope this helps. Others might suggest a different way - I would be
> very interested myself.
I have just added a second item in the category antique and can now
see one major flaw, it doesn't sort things alphabetically for me. This
might not be a flaw for you, but I can see it causing a problem if you
need to sort items in a particular way.

Any ideas please?
-- 
Rich
http://www.cregy.co.uk
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