creating sub-folders in Xara

[ArchMed1]

- who are your target visitors btw - is it just for me I want it this way, will anyone else actually notice ?

The target are professionals in the field of archaeology, professional debunkers (a well known organization of academics I have been communicating with regarding the project) and alternative historical and science fiction readers, of which the site serves as a marketing tool. Indeed. And all the rest.

[Acorn]

It is useful to keep a Thread such as this open to encourage debate and ideas.

I took one of ArchMed1 reference organisations, the Smithsonian Institution, and picked out an Article at random: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...950-180978701/:

• It is an article in the Smithsonian Institution's Magazine (SIM).
• All the Sections of the SIM have typically short URLs with lowercased words separated by hyphens, spine-case. Absolutely bog-standard.
• Only the Articles have long URLs.
• Only in the Articles can you navigate to the bottom of the page; the Sections all have infinity scrolling so new content is always fetched as you near the bottom.
• No page has a Search.
• An external Google Search for 'smithsonianmag coral reefs' returns 7 potential hits for the link above. You get a single hit if you include just the UID as in 'mag 180978701'.
  
  • None show the full URL.

In examining this linked Article, no explicit citations were listed.
I extracted all the internal links:

• All long URLs just belonged to the SIM.
• External examples include:
  
  • https://www.mi.mun.ca/departments/of...rtylereddy.php
  • Mary Hagedorn - https://nationalzoo.si.edu/conservation/mary-hagedorn
  • bleaching - https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral_bleach.html
  • 2018 study - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5786882/
  • much of their diet - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166681
  • Christina Hicks - https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/abou...hristina-hicks
  • overfishing and pollution - https://www.epa.gov/coral-reefs/threats-coral-reefs

SI itself states:

Smithsonian magazine places a Smithsonian lens on the world, looking at the topics and subject matters researched, studied and exhibited by the Smithsonian Institution—science, history, art, popular culture and innovation—and chronicling them every day for our diverse readership.

It is in no way intended for professional archaeologists or researchers; it is the SI's 'Reader's Digest', (which still can't be bothered to correct its misplaced apostrophe).
Professionals reference peer-reviewed articles in learned journal that require citations through the International DOI Foundation (IDF): https://www.doi.org, following ISO 23624. Links are of style, https://doi.org/10.1109/5.771073. This is a short URL and doi is one of the few I would ever trust.

The SIM is hiding, not liberating, information.
Even TG with the link to this Thread, https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...olders-in-Xara, can be abridged to https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?85560 and still work.
You cannot do this with Articles in the SIM.

Instead, try a Google Scholar Search for 'coral reefs'. Very, very few are long URLs.

Acorn

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For those interested in checking the Links on a page, I used https://towardsdatascience.com/quick...e-49bb6f48127b (actually, https://towardsdatascience.com/49bb6f48127b):

You open the browser > developer Tools (F12) > console and paste in:

var x = document.querySelectorAll("a");
var myarray = []
for (var i=0; i<x.length; i++){
var nametext = x[i].textContent;
var cleantext = nametext.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim();
var cleanlink = x[i].href;
myarray.push([cleantext,cleanlink]);
};
function make_table() {
    var table = '<table><thead><th>Name</th><th>Links</th></thead><tbody>';
   for (var i=0; i<myarray.length; i++) {
            table += '<tr><td>'+ myarray[i][0] + '</td><td>'+myarray[i][1]+'</td></tr>';
    };

    var w = window.open("");
w.document.write(table); 
}
make_table()

You then have a new page showing all the hyperlinked text and associated link in a table.