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Linking species and localities to their data pages

Posted by Rock Currier  
avatar Linking species and localities to their data pages
May 02, 2009 11:30PM
It was recommended that in the articles we generate that we link the species name with its data page. I think this is a good idea. It also occurred to me that we could do the same for each locality mentioned. This would be a fair amount of extra work to create all the extra links and when the user can click on any picture or caption and be taken to the full size image with the full caption and other data and can from there click on the species name or the locality and be taken to their pages it will probably not be worth the trouble for us to do it. There is the situation however where some of our articles will not have any pictures because there are no pictures on mindat to link to. In these situations, I think we should definitely link the species name and the localities to their pages on mindat. Does everyone know hot to do this? Insert the code string [ url=http://www.mindat.org/xxxxxx etc] selected mineral name or locality goes here[ /url]. I have added an extra space after the right facing brackets so that the code string will be visible here. When you create the code string, you will omit those spaces.

Rock Currier
Crystals not pistols.
avatar Re: Linking species and localities to their data pages
May 05, 2009 10:10PM
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Rock, I completed Millerite and Schalenblende, the mineral link and locality links are in place, have look at it, I think it works like a charm.....
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