The Content Linking Component

Even though an item may no longer be current, you still want to give users access to it. You do this with archives of this site. Users can view a list of all the files and click the item they want to read. While they're on that page, they can move forwards or backwards in the list. None of that is too complicated. In fact, you can do all that with the HTML you already know. But let's look at maintainability. Adding a new page means adding it to the contents page, which isn't difficult. You must also decide which pages go before and after it and add links to the new page, and then modify those pages to point to the new one. None of that is tough, but what if you reorganize the site and decide to reorder all those ...

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