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The External Links module is a very simple approach to adding icons to links
to external websites or e-mail addresses. It is a purely JavaScript
implementation, so the icons are only shown to users that have JavaScript
enabled.

Fivestar was written by Nathan Haug. Built by Robots: http://www.lullabot.com

Install
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Simply instal External Links like you would any other module.

1) Copy the extlink folder to the modules folder in your installation.

2) Enable the module using Administer -> Modules (/admin/build/modules).

3) No additional configuration is necessary though you may fine-tune settings at
   Administer -> Site configuration -> External Links (/admin/settings/extlink).

A note about the CSS
--------------------
This module adds a CSS file that is only a few lines in length. You may choose
to move this CSS to your theme to prevent the file from needing to be loaded
separately. To do this:

1) Open the .info file for your theme, add this line of code to prevent
   the extlink.css file from loading:
   stylesheets[all][] = extlink.css
2) Open the extlink.css file within the extlink directory and copy all the code
   from the file into your theme's style.css file.
3) Copy the extlink.png and mailto.png files to your theme's directory.

Note that you DO NOT need to make a extlink.css file. Specifying the file in the
info file is enough to tell Drupal not to load the original file.

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  2. The External Links module is a very simple approach to adding icons to links

  3. to external websites or e-mail addresses. It is a purely JavaScript

  4. implementation, so the icons are only shown to users that have JavaScript

  5. enabled.

  6. 

  7. Fivestar was written by Nathan Haug. Built by Robots: http://www.lullabot.com

  8. 

  9. Install

  10. -------

  11. Simply instal External Links like you would any other module.

  12. 

  13. 1) Copy the extlink folder to the modules folder in your installation.

  14. 

  15. 2) Enable the module using Administer -> Modules (/admin/build/modules).

  16. 

  17. 3) No additional configuration is necessary though you may fine-tune settings at

  18.    Administer -> Site configuration -> External Links (/admin/settings/extlink).

  19. 

  20. A note about the CSS

  21. --------------------

  22. This module adds a CSS file that is only a few lines in length. You may choose

  23. to move this CSS to your theme to prevent the file from needing to be loaded

  24. separately. To do this:

  25. 

  26. 1) Open the .info file for your theme, add this line of code to prevent

  27.    the extlink.css file from loading:

  28.    stylesheets[all][] = extlink.css

  29. 2) Open the extlink.css file within the extlink directory and copy all the code

  30.    from the file into your theme's style.css file.

  31. 3) Copy the extlink.png and mailto.png files to your theme's directory.

  32. 

  33. Note that you DO NOT need to make a extlink.css file. Specifying the file in the

  34. info file is enough to tell Drupal not to load the original file.