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

[cl at isbd.net]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 01:45:32PM -0800, Earl Miles 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. 
> 
> I'm still confused. You don't need an add-on to use the <a> tag. Yes, you need 
> an add-on to have some spiffy click-and-pick UI to add links into text, but you 
> have to understand that there are a lot of use cases where we might not want a 
> spiffy click-and-pick UI.
> 
I was hoping to avoid HTML by using Drupal (or another CMS), I thought
the point of the exercise was to make it easy for non-techie people to
enter web content.

> Either that or I just don't understand what you're asking. You keep saying that 
> "this is fundamental", but I think it's only fundamental to what you are trying 
> to do in particular, and not necesarily fundamental to the concept in general. 
> A lot of people will have that perspective about some particular feature or 
> other, which is very important to what that person wants...but not necessarily 
> what everyone wants.
> 
Entering links into the body of what you're writing is fairly
fundamental to the idea of the web surely.


> > ... and when you've done it you can't really see what the result looks
> > like.
> 
> Does the 'Preview' button not work for you?
> 
Probably!  :-)   I seem to have ended up a long way away from where I
came in.

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