Continuing today’s Drupal love, I should mention that I recently figured out how to use the Inline module. Thanks to Inline, I’ve gotten much closer to the more-ideal state I felt I had with the built-in facilities of Userland Manila in 1999.
Namely, I adored Manila’s easy interlinking of pages. I could just quote the name of one page while in the body text of a second page, and the quoted title would become a link between them when published. I could also put images inline by quoting their titles in the body text of a page. It made the rapid creation of new, richly-linked sets of pages very fast and, while not effortless, much easier. I’ve used that to good effect, I think, in some past projects.
Drupal’s Inline module allows me to do much the same today. It uses double square brackets, which aren’t as convenient as quotes, but it gives me additional power I always wished Manila had. I can place the titles of pages on my site inside the double backets, to link between pages internally. I can also put the URLs of outside pages in those brackets, to link externally. I can also modify this by putting a pipe between the title or URL, and the link text that I want the reader to see on the page. This is very flexible, and that last ability really overcomes an obstacle I ran into with Manila — without the opportunity to change the link text, I ended up having some oddly-capitalized links within sentences.