...the advice everyone else is giving about CCK/Links/etc... is good advice. if you want something lightweight that works out-of-the box, try the userlink module
http://drupal.org/project/userlink
it's been ported to 5.x, and while i think it should be a simple CCK extension module someday, at the present it is a standalone module. use it along with Tagadelic for some good fun. there's a 4.7 demo here:
http://demos.funnymonkey.com/userlink
if it's what you were looking for, and you weren't able to find it by searching the Drupal site, please feel free to contribute some better wording to the module description for me.
marc ------- http://www.funnymonkey.com Tools for Teachers
will hall wrote:
mm, well the problem with this is that they look identical to pages and really the display is key. it also doesn't actually show the urls. it is just like an empty page, titles linked to another url not the full node.
we need something that is more specific to weblinks and more like the display we started.
-- will
Richard Brown wrote:
Hi Will
On 29/01/07, Richard Brown rich@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?