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I’ve often thought that for my small sites and Content Management System (CMS) is a bit over the top.

However, since I first noticed that I had lots of pages errors and lots of dead links, I thought it would be a good idea to have some way of easily managing external links on my sites.

A few days ago all my links and support text were hard coded in my ASP / PHP pages. I guess I could have just altered each page. However I thought in the long term it would be a good idea if this data was held in a database.

I therefore setup on PHP admin pages and have put most of links / supporting text in a mysql database. I not have a standard script which adds this content the each page, via a SiteTag and PageSection tag / variable.

I’ve got about 250 records

Throughout this task, I keep having doubts as to whether all this work will make it easier and whether all this time spent is worthwhile.

I’m now not every sure that outbounds links is that important any more.

Thoughts?

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by JM