How to Link - ! Important !
Please do feel welcome to link.
These pages dynamically generated.
Please take a moment to review this page on how to properly link to the material here on this site. Otherwise, you may be offering a link to the wrong material.
Links on the Web
You are welcome to provide a link to any material on this site. You may offer a link to the index page, http://articles.cranium-creations.com. You may prefer to link directly to one of the articles or tutorials.
If that is your intent, please use the “permalink” for that particular article. The way to find that link, is to click the Article Name at the top of the page.
This will take you to a page that will be the stable URL for the particular article.
You can tell if you have copied the proper URL by the text in that URL. It should contain a date, such as this one does:
http://articles.cranium-creations.com/2006/01/03/some-tutorial/
Notice that it has within the URL, “2006/01/03″ and then an article name.
This page, for the same article:
http://articles.cranium-creations.com/2006/01/page/2/
May not be a permanent link. If we add another article, or change the order of the articles in that month, the URL could change.
The same goes for articles that appear on the main page. As we add articles to this resource, those go away from the main page. If you link to articles on the main page, or with any URL other than the “permalink”, you will most likely be offering a link to material other than what you intended.
If you ever have trouble with this, and would like us to supply you with the proper URL for anything on this site, please do feel free to contact us. We will get you all set up.
We encourage the free sharing of information and incoming links help our standings with the search engines, so do please feel welcome to offer links to this site.
Links in eMail
When pasting long URLs into email, many times the URL becomes broken and may not work properly. This renders the URL disabled, or difficult for your mail recipients to use. (They can paste it back together and fix it, but what a pain, eh?)
Fortunately, there is an easy solution to this problem. Our fine friends over at 1url.org Short URL Redirection Service will shorten the URL for us, so that we may paste it safely into an email message without the worry of the URL getting broken.
Just surf on over there, and paste the long URL in, and the service will provide you with a shortened, safe URL. To read more about 1url.org, read this launch announcement:
1url.org Short URL Redirection Service Launch
Please do not use this method on a web page.
Use the full permalink for your web pages, but for email, it works very nicely.
Thank You.
