Readers Respond: Describe Your Site's Linking Strategy

A linking strategy is a plan for how your website is going to handle external (and often internal) links. Linking strategies detail what can and can't be linked to as well as how they should be linked and where. Find out what linking strategies other Web design readers use and share your own, if you have one.

I use a PHP Include 'menu.php'

I was the web master for a site with about 120 pages. Except for the home page, all links were in a vertical row on the left side. I "PHP Include" the same 'menu.php' file on every page. I have Main, Sub1 and Sub2 menu links. All sub menu links are hidden as they are written inside a div element like . At the bottom of each web page I include a javascript "Show" command like "menu0100.style.display='' ;" for the menu sub group that needs to be displayed, the rest stays hidden. If you change one link in the menu.php file, all pages are changed at one time. As an added benefit all links are written into each page's HTML so a search engine would see all links on every page. Every link has a unique id as well like 'menu01' for Main Link 01; 'menu0101' Main Group 01, Sub1 Link 01; and 'menu0100' is used to define the sub group under Main Group 01 to show/hide. To color the link I call a javascript function that changes the link's style.

—Guest junoflydog

Linking Stratagies ?

I am not sure I understand what you ment by liknking strategy, I had nevr given it much thought, However, First ,on the front page,(index.html),but it has a different header and title, the first page has the links, to the various pages, one about work, one about Dos,etc, and also a link for a directory, where I have a list of links, which are mostly "outside links", or to other sites, in each page, I also put links, when there is a related site or topic, if I have a strategy, it is to give the reader a couple of links, to specific pages IE: my work, then a link to the directory, where the reader can look thru what ever might interest them, and also find a list of all the links to other sites. I trys to keep my links updated, checking periodicly to make sure they work, or if any site has changed, make the correction, I know there are a couple, that no longer exist, and need to remove them,..I guess if it were a commercial site, 1st to the items to be sold, then info, etc. from Garry

—GarryRicketson

test

this is a test of my site strateagy. if I know a good strateagy, I will get it as soon as possaible. I hope so.

—danakarkuki