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LINKING PAGES (LINKTO), Undoing things. Pictures. ------------------------------------------------ > I am currently still trying to work through the points you asked me to cover (the summery etc). I have managed to crack doing text boxes, however, I'm in a state of panic at the minute as I think I have somehow deleted the links in column 3, and don't know how to rectify this.So sorry if there is any real damage done. You can use the Link form to do links. When you link two pages you link from a source page to a target page. Often the source page is at a so called 'higher level' than the target. After linking Plexel will have put a 'forward' link in col3 of the source page, and a 'backward link in col1 of the target page. So each forward link always has an associated back link. On a side issue, Plexel automatically links pages when a New page is made, the source page is the page where you click New, and the target is the new page. COPYING PAGE LOCATIONS TO CLIPBOARD. A page location is a url. This is like an address to find a page. For example http://plexos.com/index.html is a location. Also the local pages on your PC have locations too. For example file:///C:/Websites/PussCats/PussCats.Com/Kittens.htm is the url or location of the Kittens page on your hard drive. There are several ways to copy locations to clipboard. For example if you can see the page listed in the clickboard then right click on it and 'Copy Link Location'. Another way is to go to the A-Z Page Index and find the page there, right click on it, and 'Copy Link Location'. Basically, wherever you can see a link to a page you can right click it and 'Copy Link Location'. This applies to both online and offline pages. You can also use Plexel 'Load' to see the Display page location in the box highlighted in blue, just do CTRL+C and you will have copied the Display location into clipboard. There are three ways to link pages, in order of recommendation:- 1. Copy the Kitten page location to clipboard using the instructions above. Then make sure the Cat page is the Display page and click Link, now click 'Link Cat to target' (note that the Target:Clipboard box was ticked for you as default). 2. You could have started at the Cat page, clicked Link, keep the Link form open, then browsed to the Kittens page, ticked Target:Display, and clicked 'Link Cat to target'. 3. You could browse to the Kitten page, click Store+Set Store to Display page, browse back to the Cat page, click Link, tick the Store box, click 'Link Cat to target'. -----another comment on linking pages-------------- LINKING PAGES (LINKTO) ---------------------------- Please now go back to the top and work down again looking for 'link to this' entries. You first come to 'kitten pictures' from the 'kittens' page. Notice that 'kitten pictures' has already been made from the homepage but it makes sense to link to it too from the 'kittens' page. I think link to pages wherever it makes sense to do so. To do this first right click on the 'Kitten Pictures' link in the clickboard and then 'Copy Link location' to get the 'Kittens Pictures' URL into clipboard. You could also have used 'Kittens Pictures' entry in the A-Z index to do this and you could even have a separate Netscape window open with the A-Z index if you are doing lots of linking as you are now. Now go to the 'kittens' page and click Link + Link Kittens to target' and that's it. There are other ways to link pages but I think I covered it in another email. Work your way down the blueprint covering all the 'link to this' entries in the same fashion. However if there was a level-3 or more, it would be better to do page linking in the same level by level way as for making new pages. > Maybe one of my first questions to you should of been how to undo any changes! UNDO ---- Undo is not a feature I have had time to build in. Plexel is sudden death. It is important to do regular backups to CD in case of accident. I hope you can do this? Although I said Plexel was sudden death, I forgot to mention that if you mess up a page you can always restore to some extent by downloading the online one using Paste + Download Display Page. If you have completely deleted the page by accident then click Paste + Edit List and type in the exact name of the file e.g. Kittens.htm then do Paste + Download List. List also works on a series of files typed on separate lines. If you upload regularly you can never mess up too much. > The problem being, I uploaded 'by clicking paste, upload all changed files' so not only did it save the changes I wanted changing but also the ones i didn't want changing. Is there a way you can make just individual changes? Yes you can do Paste + Upload Display Page. > I'm also reading through the HTML guide (which I am finding quite useful)on how to insert photographs - i've tried several times to do this now to no avail - however i'm determined to do it, but if there are no photos on the cats pages tommorrow, I might need a few pointers. Images should not be put in without using Plexel New form because there is quite a lot involved such as image widths etc that you won't know about. Please first copy the image location to clipboard by right clicking on the image and 'Copy image location'. However, if you use Internet Explorer for this it doesn't have 'Copy image location' you have to do 'Properties' and highlight the URL then CTRL+C. Now go to the Display page, and click New + 'here'. Then select where you want to put it, etc, using the three drop down boxes. Then click 'put image in' and answer the prompts. That is how to put an image in. ------ another email on this---------- The extracts from the blueprint are:- > Ok let's just take 'Foosball Forums' > There is a 'Foosball Forum' Under 'Foosball Collectors' > And 'Foosball Tips'. > Do I still add this "Foosball Forum" link to both? > Also there's a 'Foosball Forum' link under 'Miscellaneous' > > So basically even though there's already a Link to this forum page, do I > still add it to other pages? Foosball 430 Foosball Regions MADEUP Foosball Forums 4 LINKTO Foosball Collectors 8 Foosball Forums 4 LINKTO Foosball Tips 11 Foosball Forums 4 LINKTO Miscellaneous Foosball MADEUP Foosball Forums 4 Foosball Forums appears 4 times. Only one of those is without LINKTO, i.e. the one from Miscellaneous Foosball. That is where you Make the new page Foosball Forums. Maybe I should have left in the 'Make new from here' as I had before like this:- Miscellaneous Foosball MADEUP (Make New from here. Level-2) Foosball Forums 4 (Make New from here. Level-3) I took them out because it was not logically necessary and long winded. After making the new page 'Foosball Forum' then you need link to it from the other three pages:- Foosball Regions Foosball Collectors Foosball Tips To do this you first copy the location of the page 'Foosball Forums' into the windows clipboard. Do you understand the windows clipboard? It is very important for Plexel. To do this go to the 'Foosball Forums' page and click 'Load'. In the box should be a url file:///C:/Websites/TableFootball/TableFootball.Com/Foosball_Forums.htm this is the location of the page. Now do CTRL+C to copy to windows clipboard. There is more info on this at:- file:///C:/Websites/Copying_Locations_to_Clipboard.htm Having got the location to clipboard now go to 'Foosball Regions' and click 'Link+Link Foosball Regions to target. Done. The links will be put in. Repeat that bit for the other two Foosball Collectors and Foosball Tips. ORDER OF MAKING PAGES --------------------- You should first make all the new pages in the blue print and then do all the LINKTO's. In both cases working your way down the blueprint from top to bottom so that the order of the links in col3 is correct with most popular at the top as you might expect. Maybe you want to delete all the pages you made and start again. It might be quicker. SOME LINKTO'S NEED ADJUSTING ---------------------------- You seem to have made all the new pages and LINKTO's fine. There is an undersight in Plexel regarding LINKTO's. If you are linking from page A to B plexel puts a link in col3 of A and a (back) link in col1 of B. It might be that you want both links in col3 so they are both easily visible. I was thinking of making this standard. In the meantime could you go through all the LINKTO's manually and see if you should move the col1 links to col3. People don't really see the links in col1 because they are far down below the clickboard. This is OK for new pages because you have the 'Back' thing in the clickboard, but for LINKTO's it is not so good. For example the page 'Car Hire Barcelona Airport' could have the link 'Car Rental Airports' moved from col1 to col3, but not the other one 'Car Hire Spain'. If you work your way down the LINKTO's in the blueprint you can check them all to see if they need moving. Comments appreciated. There is quite a difference between the links put in by 'New page' than those with LINKTO. New page creates a definite sub-topic whereas LINKTO is a often just a cross reference with neither one of the two pages being 'higher' than the other. Really we should group links into these two types and label each block. At present they all look the same.