ReaderBoards.com Glossary
Link to Our Glossary From Your Site



There are two basic ways to link our glossary content into your web page.

You can embed links to our glossary of terms directly in the text of your pages, or you can provide an entry field for your visitors to specify terms for lookup. You can mix and match both of these linking techniques as often as you'd like on your site's pages.




Linking from Hypertext

You can include hypertext links to our glossary in the text of your Web pages, as in this example:

Here's an example of a link to our glossary entry for the term VoiceXML

And the HTML code for that.
The only part of this code that matters of course is the link itself:

<A HREF=
"http://www.readerboards.com/cgi-bin/M/Glos/GetTerm.pl?GetTerm=VoiceXML"
TARGET="_blank">VoiceXML</A>

Which gives the link to our glossary as the HREF parameter:

"http://www.readerboards.com/cgi-bin/M/Glos/GetTerm.pl?GetTerm=VoiceXML"

You may also provide a TARGET parameter. By setting this to _blank you are telling the link to open up in a new window. One that will pop up in front of your website page.




Linking With An Entry Field

You can also present an entry field to your site visitors that allows them to type in a word or phrase to look up, as in the example:
Glossary term:

This form lets your visitor enter his or her own word to look up. The go button is redundant but helps guide the visitor in the use of the entry field.

Here's the HTML of the entry form above:
In the listing above, everything but: <INPUT TYPE="Submit" Value="go"> should be included. The label "Glossary Term:" can say whatever you want of course.

The next section will describe how you can specify up to five alternate glossaries from around the Web, to be searched for whatever terms your visitors enter.




Specifying Alternate Glossaries to Search

The problem with the form in the above section is that it will simply return an appology page if the term your visitor entered was not found in our glossary (try entering "coffee" for example).

When you include an entry-field to our glossary in your site, you may also list up to five "alternate" glossaries to be checked for terms that aren't found in the primary glossary. The alternates (labeled "Alt01" through "Alte05") are checked in order so you can list smaller, more concise glossaries first and a general glossary last.

Here is our recommended form and code (with alternates):

Glossary term:

The above form includes alternate glossaries. Note that alternates are specified with an input field something like this: <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="Alt01" VALUE=""AGlossary.cgi...">

The alternate glossaries you specify should normally use Creativyst(tm) Glossary software You may also specify one final glossary to search in even if it is not a Creativyst(tm) Glossary. The single non-Creativyst glossary must be listed last because only Creativyst(tm) Glossary will chain alternates.




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