External Link Solution...

Question

I am building an online directory which requires me to have a
ton of external links pointing away from my site. I know that many
people (including myself) are easily annoyed by new windows
loading, so I want to avoid that. However, my hope is to make it
easier for my visitors to return to my site once they have
"wandered" a bit.
To solve the issue I would like to develop the site to where
when someone clicks on a link, it will open to that site... but
will have a very thin frame at the top with our logo and a "return
to" link. This would be similar to when you do a Google image
search, click on an image and have the banner at the top that
allows you to return to the search, turn off the header, etc.
Does anyone know how this would be designed best? I'm sure it
is fairly simple, and I know that I am probably making it a lot
more complicated than it should be...
And... I am open to other suggestions if you have better
ideas.

Answer 1

Use frames. However, some sites will block your attempt to
"frame" them.
The outgoing links would all point to your frameset, with the
actual domain
carried in a URL variable, e.g.,
<a href="yourframesetpage.php?link=example.com"...
Then the frameset would parse that variable, e.g.,
<?php
$url = (isset($_GET['link'])?$_GET['link']:FALSE);
?>
and use it in the frameset definition, e.g.,
<frame src="<?php echo
($url?$url:'somedummypage.html'); ?>"....
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"ArtsyAndi" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I am building an online directory which requires me to
have a ton of
>external
> links pointing away from my site. I know that many
people (including
> myself)
> are easily annoyed by new windows loading, so I want to
avoid that.
> However, my
> hope is to make it easier for my visitors to return to
my site once they
> have
> "wandered" a bit.
>
> To solve the issue I would like to develop the site to
where when someone
> clicks on a link, it will open to that site... but will
have a very thin
> frame
> at the top with our logo and a "return to" link. This
would be similar to
> when
> you do a Google image search, click on an image and have
the banner at the
> top
> that allows you to return to the search, turn off the
header, etc.
>
> Does anyone know how this would be designed best? I'm
sure it is fairly
> simple, and I know that I am probably making it a lot
more complicated
> than it
> should be...
>
> And... I am open to other suggestions if you have better
ideas.
>