While you always can use normal HTML to create a link (i.e. <a href="http://www.antville.org">antville</a>), antville provides a special macro called "link". depending on the options you specify, the link-macro will change it's behaviour.

<% link to="http://www.antville.org" %> will result in www.antville.org.

<% link to="http://www.antville.org" text="antville" %> will show this link: antville.

<% site.link to="topics/polls" text="polls" %> creates a link to polls.

please mind the use of site.link - this simply means that you tell your site to create a link (you can also use <% story.link ...%>). And that again means that everything you specify in the to=...-option will be relative to your site (or your story).

Of course you can also use the link-macro for ftp-, https-, mms- or whatever-links. The only thing that an external URL must contain is ://

And finally, for the lousy ones, antville is able to detect URLs in a story or comment, so when you simply write http://antville.org antville will display http://www.antville.org

i think we should provide a way to enter a url without antville transforming it into a link...

is there the possibility to set a link that opens a new window rather than opening the resource in the current one?

is there something like the 454 for the "linkto" in image makros? I tried "site.linkto" but it didn't work.

how else can i place the correct links for images in my main navigation (see here: http://depix.antville.org)?

good old static html would of course work, but is it the only possibility?

Is it possible to create a link to the root-page of the system or blog only if the user is not already there (in case he/she is already there replace the link with normal text or similar)?