Publishing Links

HLOM's purpose is to help people do useful and interesting things with links. We make no assumptions or judgments about why they want to do these things.

One of the things that people like to be able to do is publish their own lists of links. We know this because the web is littered with them.

HLOM's publish feature can be used as a boingboingesque blog, adding new articles and their related links on a regular basis. Or maybe just a repository of sites whose page rank needs a boost. Or a definitive directory on your specialist subject. Or those links that you're so tired of pasting into emails every time friends/family/clients get a case of The Screaming Technofear.

It's a fairly new feature for HLOM and we're looking forward to seeing what unpredictable and weird things users choose to do with it... You can find a list of the pages that users have published so far at: www.hyperlinkomatic.com/pub/

The Publishing Menu

The Publishing Menu initially has a single option: Create Webpage.

This will take you to a page that invites you to firstly create a folder. Every webpage needs a place to live. The name that you enter will become the directory that contains your pages. As is always the case with URLs and directories, you'll need to avoid using anything other than standard alphanumeric characters.

Obviously, if another user has already taken a name you'll have to think of something else.

Edit Webpage

Title: The title of your page

URL: defined by HLOM

Author: Your name as you want it to appear on the page

Intro Text: Your futile attempt to justify adding yet another page whose only purpose is take people to other pages.

Items per Page: The total number of links and notes that you would like to appear on you page.

Edit Entries

This presents a list of all of the links that you have published. The Edit button allows you to edit the relevant Publish Link Details.

Publish Link Details

This page allows you to edit the Title and Published Text that goes along with link. It's also where you can delete links from your page.

The Published Text on this page uses something called Markdown for applying styles to the text.

In the words of Markdown's author:

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).