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

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Jan 29 12:40:51 UTC 2007


Quoting Richard Brown <rich at cregy.co.uk>:

> Hi Guys
>
> On 28/01/07, Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> Quoting cl at isbd.net:
>>
>> >
>> > As I said just before the *total* separation of structure and content
>> > breaks some of the point of web pages to my mind.  Simple, non
>> > navigational, links need to be embedded in the actual text, that's
>> > what HTML/web is for.
>> >
>>
>> So you can't do <a href="foo">go to bar</a> in the page?  I do it all
>> the time.  Path aliasing helps with this so that you can change
>> node/<x> to about or what ever else.
>>
> I understand where you are coming from but look at it from the reverse
> side. i.e. Using Wordpress you click on a button and that brings up a
> url box. You insert the url required press enter. Now you are given a
> title box, which you enter, etc. Wordpress uses tidymce as a text
> editor. Obviously Chris could install tidymce but I think what he
> might be saying is he wants this out of the box.
>
> Drupal is an excellent and complete cms and I think a joy to use as
> you start to understand nodes, users, etc. but it is not simple.
> Wordpress however works well in its simplicity and probably does
> exactly what Chris wants.
>

I found WordPress first and started with it.  Then I found Drupal and 
switched because Drupal was more complete.

Earnie


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