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Creating a Links Page

Following the information on creating a basic page, you can set up your WWW directory using the www_setup script. Then you can create a file links.html using some basic HTML and a Unix editor. (Of course, you can use a web page editor like Frontpage as well.) You can run the www_setup script again to set proper permissions.

Here's an example:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My Personal Links</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

News 
<A HREF="http://www.cnn.com">CNN</A> 
<A HREF="http://www.msnbc.com">MSNBC</A> 

Weather 
<A HREF="http://www.weather.com">Weather Channel</A>

</BODY>
</HTML>

The FONT tag specifies the headings to group links (optional). The A HREF tags are the true address of the page, and then before the </A> is what you want to call the page. The BR tag separates the links on different lines.

With this you can just add new lines as you find more neat pages. Here is what the above looks like:

News
CNN
MSNBC

Weather
Weather Channel

Transferring Links from IE or Netscape

The simplist way to get the links from the favorites or bookmarks is to go to each page, and cut and paste the address into the links file. This will always work.

Transferring from Unix Netscape or Mozilla is easy, since either program will keep a bookmarks.html file somewhere. Netscape keeps its in the ~/.netscape directory. Mozilla buries its a little further down in the ~/.mozilla directory.

This bookmarks.html file is in plain HTML and can be included into your links page with only minor effort.

Internet Explorer keeps its favorites in single files. However in newer versions you can go under the File menu in IE, and select Import/Export to put your favorites into a plain HTML file. This can then be included into your links page with minor effort.

These Netscape/Mozilla/IE exported files are not as easy to edit as the hand written HTML in the example, so if you do not want to go through and prune the file for inclusion into your links page, a quick alternative is just to copy that file into your WWW directory and make a link to it from your links page. Such as:

Old Links 
<A HREF="bookmarks.html">Links from Netscape</A>

Other Ideas

You can create links from your links page to other pages in your directory if this one page gets too crowded, and some of those could be password or host protected.

I tend to still use the internal favorites on the browser for links I'll only need for a few days. Then every once in a while I go through the favorites to clean it up and transfer links I want to keep to the links page.

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Creating a Links Page

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