Links... Well, for two of the four sites I mentioned in my intro, it's basically built-in: my craft archive includes a link to the pattern used on each project's page, because it's dang useful and I want to both be able to myself find it again and help others grab it; my fan archives directory is, well, a directory, so it's a bunch of links by nature. For my upcoming fan exchange, linking is less of a priority because the site aims to be a resource for a specific project that's limited in time, though it will eventually link to the creations made for the event (if the creators agree to it, I made that opt-in).
For my fic archive, though, links are... kinda weirdly handled, honestly. At first I had great ambitions of finding other people with similar archives and be friends and link to them on the "links" page I do have, but it's kinda flopped because uh... I'm not that social I guess? I have a few links there, notably to the fanfic webring and to my directory, but I actually have more links on my "about" page because I linked to every person who contributed something to my writing. These are not very small web, all in all, but it's still links ^^
One other thing I should probably mention is that I really don't like the very concept of using buttons to link to stuff. At best you can get the site's name and/or a general vibe out of a tiny picture, but that's not super helpful to know what you're getting into, so I'd rather use text for my links, and describe what it is and why it's on my page.
I still made buttons for most of my sites because I know many people will just not link to your site if they can't use a button, which saddens me.
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Date: 2025-09-08 10:12 am (UTC)Links... Well, for two of the four sites I mentioned in my intro, it's basically built-in: my craft archive includes a link to the pattern used on each project's page, because it's dang useful and I want to both be able to myself find it again and help others grab it; my fan archives directory is, well, a directory, so it's a bunch of links by nature. For my upcoming fan exchange, linking is less of a priority because the site aims to be a resource for a specific project that's limited in time, though it will eventually link to the creations made for the event (if the creators agree to it, I made that opt-in).
For my fic archive, though, links are... kinda weirdly handled, honestly. At first I had great ambitions of finding other people with similar archives and be friends and link to them on the "links" page I do have, but it's kinda flopped because uh... I'm not that social I guess? I have a few links there, notably to the fanfic webring and to my directory, but I actually have more links on my "about" page because I linked to every person who contributed something to my writing. These are not very small web, all in all, but it's still links ^^
One other thing I should probably mention is that I really don't like the very concept of using buttons to link to stuff. At best you can get the site's name and/or a general vibe out of a tiny picture, but that's not super helpful to know what you're getting into, so I'd rather use text for my links, and describe what it is and why it's on my page.
I still made buttons for most of my sites because I know many people will just not link to your site if they can't use a button, which saddens me.