New Feature: Links!!!
One of the more requested features was the ability to create your own “links” section. TotSites members wanted the ability to link to sibling TotSites and other online favorites directly from their TotSite. In some sense adding links to your site is nothing new (here are instructions on how to add links to other areas of your site), but up till now there was not a dedicated section on your site just for links. I’ll admit, as our children get older there are some cases when a “gift registry” doesn’t make sense. Not to mention being able to add some of your favorite links is always fun!
This new feature also allows you to add optional “introductory” text to the links section. This text will appear at the top of your Links section allowing you can introduce what type of links you will be adding to your site if you choose to. Depending on feedback – we may extend this functionality to other areas of TotSites as well.
You can choose between 3 options:
- Links Section - Add your favorite links including: other TotSites, favorite parenting links, favorite “deal” site etc…
- Gift Registry – If you’re still expecting or a Holiday/Birthday is near; adding a Gift Registry to your site can be very useful.
- None - You can simply turn off both the Gift Registry and Links sections if you prefer.
By default the Gift Registry will be turned on for all members. If you choose to change it to the Link section, simply go to the Gift Registry and click on the “switch to links” in the task box. You will be prompted to confirm you want to change over to the links section.
We will be making minor changes to the links section based on your input. If you have any comments please leave a comment here in the Blog.
Brian
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Hi Brian.
I changed my gift registry to a links page… my idea is to add all the links to other friends and family websites, so that I can view them and also other friends.
I want to add a picture of the families (or children in most cases) before or after each link (child name).
So, basically I want to add the name of the parents
Then the children’s name(s) with the link embedded in the name
**also, I want to add a picture of the children** This is where I am having a problem.
How can I do this?
Julie
Comment by Julie Phillips — April 28, 2007 @ 10:55 am
Hello Julie,
We went ahead and added the same image icon that is available in the journals. You can use this to insert photos already uploaded to your site in the comments section for a link. Here are some instructions on how to use this feature: Adding Images To Journals and Links areas .
If you need to link to an external image you will need to use the HTML icon and add the appropiate HTML code to add an image.
Feel free to email me if you need a more detailed example.
Comment by bvannoy — April 29, 2007 @ 9:20 am
thank you so much for doing this! i love this feature:)
Comment by vd — May 8, 2007 @ 4:56 am