Hi Will
On 29/01/07, will hall will@theicarusproject.net 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.