It's really worth the time and effort to create a customized link page template for your web site. The more attractive your link pages look, the more web sites want to be included and link back to your site.
Be sure that your link pages look good and that they can be reached easily from the other pages of your web site. If you offer your link partners an easy way to find the link directory on your site, they're more likely to link back to your site.
If you have difficulty in creating your own link page template, you might find an answer here:
| · | The category pages or sub category pages don't have the design of my web pages. How do I change this?
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| If you're using a multiple page link directory template, then you have to change the HTML code for both the index and the category pages if you want them to have the design of your web pages.
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| Multiple page link directories contain the HTML code for more than one web page in a single file.
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| · | The links point to my hard disk and not to other web sites. What can I do?
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| You've probably edited your link page template file in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor and then selected "Save as..." in that editor to save your template file in the ARELIS templates directory.
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| In that case, your HTML editor will change the links and references in your link page template so that they point to your hard disk. Do the following to solve the problem:
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| 1. Open the link page template file in a normal text editor, for example Notepad.
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| 2. Remove all "file://..." and "C:\" parts in the links. Be sure that the links are not <a href="C:/Windows/My Documents\html\[A-LINK-URL]"> (or something similar) but simply <a href="[A-LINK-URL]">
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| 3. Save the changed link page template file.
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| · | How can I open a link to a partner site in a new window?
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| If you want to open links to your partner sites in a new window, you have to use the "target=_blank" attribute in your link page template file. This is only a minor change. Do the following:
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| 1. Open your link page template file in a normal text editor, for example Notepad.
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| 2. Change all <a href="[A-LINK-URL]"> links to <a href="[A-LINK-URL]" target=_blank>
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| 3. Save the changed link page template file.
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| · | I want a link directory that contains only categories and no sub categories. How do I do this?
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| ARELIS offers a variety of different link directory formats, for example the "No sub categories" link page template.
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| · | Are there any examples for link directories?
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| · | Why doesn't ARELIS recognize the template variable?
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| Make sure you've made no spelling mistake. Although the case doesn't matter, it's important that all template variables have brackets, begin with "A-" and contain no spaces.
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| Note that some variables are only allowed when they are enclosed with other variables, for example you can use the template variable [A-Link-Title] only between the [A-Link-Repeat] and [A-Link-Repeat-End] variables. See the chapter "Overview of all variables" for more information.
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| · | Why doesn't ARELIS recognize any of the [A-Number-of-links-...] variables?
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| The variables [A-Number-of-links-in-category], [A-Number-of-sub-categories] and [A-Number-of-links-in-sub-category] will only be recognized if ARELIS gets a chance to count the links. This means that you must use the [A-Link-Repeat] and [A-Link-Repeat-End] variables, even if they don't enclose anything: [A-Link-Repeat][A-Link-Repeat-End].
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| · | The web browser displays an empty picture when there is no banner URL for the link partner web site. How can I prevent the empty picture?
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| Use the variable [A-Link-Banner-Full] instead of the [A-Link-Banner-URL] variable. The variable [A-Link-Banner] will be replaced by the HTML code <IMG SRC="<banner-url>" ALT="<link-title>"> if there's a banner URL. If there's no banner URL, the variable text [A-Link-Banner-Full] will simply be removed.
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| · | Is there an overview of all variables?
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