Link to a category

Tienie

I have a website with various "Topics" on a navigation bar.. How can I link these topics to specific categories. I.e. when the user clicks on "Safety Advice" it should open the forum in category "Safety Advice" ??

sirlancelot

Just right click on your category when in Vanilla, and then click copy link (or "Copy Shortcut" in IE).

starscream

assuming you are not using url rewriting.... instead of hardcoding the complete url you may also choose to just take everything after the .com for eg, <a href="?CategoryID=1">link to cat 1</a> <a href="?CategoryID=2">link to cat 2</a> is the same as, <a href="http://www.mysite.com/?CategoryID=1">link to cat 1</a> <a href="http://www.mysite.com/?CategoryID=2">link to cat 2</a> either will work i believe...

Wanderer

Why not simply go to that category, copy the URL and paste it?

The link below is the Random category on this forum.

http://lussumo.com/community/10/

Posted: Tuesday, 3 June 2008 at 9:32PM

starscream

touché

sirlancelot

Indeed, I described my method because it requires fewer page loads and doesn't take as long to gather all the links

Wanderer

I timed it, your method is .00000232 seconds faster than mine.

Damn it I hate losing a race!

Posted: Thursday, 5 June 2008 at 6:35AM

fysicsluvr

I think he only needed one in the first place, so it doesn't really matter...

.00000232 seconds got me, I'd go for sirlancelot's method

WallPhone

I'd go for Wanderer's--sirlancelot's instructions required taking a screen shot, loading it in a image editor, cropping, drawing a pair of ovals, uploading it to an web server, then posing a message.

Tienie

Yip, I went with Sirlancelot's help. For the effort of making the screen shots for me.. But thanks for all the other help..