Generating Your Own Link Pages

Generating the final HTML link pages is easy with LinkAssistant. Every links page is based on a fully customizable, editable template. To create a new template just invoke the Create New Links Page Template wizard, and follow the instructions. The wizard will offer you two options: create a so-called "plain" links page, or a more sophisticated, multi-level directory page (similar to Yahoo! Directory). Choose what best suits your needs. You will also have the opportunity to setup some advanced configuration parameters for your future links page, such as the number of link partner entries per page, enumeration options, and more. This is the right place and time to do it. Finally, you get to customize exactly what goes before and after each partner entry, or the so-called "header" and "footer", to use the LinkAssistant's terms. Click Finish and you are done.

New Links Page Template Wizard

Next, LinkAssistant presents you with a links page template that you'll use in a minute to generate the actual HTML page or pages. You should see a bunch of evil red text variables ;), and a Preview tab.

Service Variables And The Preview Tab

The purpose of Preview is obvious. The variables, in their turn, control exactly what information gets into your links page. LinkAssistant will substitute the variables with the appropriate values from the current project properties, and your link partners' properties, among other things. Here you can customize and fine-tune things ad infinitum, if you like. If you are not sure how to do that, you have two options: put up with the defaults (which are very reasonable by design), or go read the overview of all link page template variables.

OK, now it's time to generate the actual HTML links page. To do that, simply click the Generate Links Page(s) button, and that's it.

Generate HTML Pages
By Clicking This Button

Congratulations, you are done! Go ahead and upload your brand-new links page to your FTP server.