Link to the SALTO resources

SALTO has created over the years several tools and databases useful for international youth projects. It is possible to benefit from these resources and link directly into our different tools and databases. And it is easy!

Of course it is possible to simply link to www.SALTO-YOUTH.net, but you could make the links to SALTO on your website much more specific and targeted. It is like pointing out a specific relevant paragraph or chapter to your users, in stead of giving them a book.

Here is an explanation on how you couldmake use of the SALTO resources and make more of your website (and a short introduction on how to customise links).

Link to a specific SALTO Page

On the bottom of every page on the SALTO website you will find the URL (webaddress) to which you can link (tell me how). The page you link to will automatically appear with the SALTO navigation on top.

Most SALTO pages have the simple URL which is composed of http://www.salto-youth.net/ plus the name of the individual page e.g. inclusion, youthinitiatives, toolbox, etc. Easy!

You can find a full overview of all existing SALTO pages at http://www.salto-youth.net/sitemap/where you can 'hover' the links with your mouse in order to see the URL appear in the bottom left 'status bar' of your internet browser, or alternatively you can right click a link and click 'copy shortcut' to past the URL in another document.

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Link to Training Tools from the Toolbox

You can link to http://www.salto-youth.net/toolbox/but maybe you want to provide to your website-users a link tospecific training tools on a certain priority of your organisation or to a specific training method in the toolbox which you might use or have used in a training course.

Link to a specific training tool: at the bottom of each training tool you will find the direct link to it which looks like this http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/119.html
Link to a specific search result: when doing a search via http://www.salto-youth/find-a-tool/you will get a list of relevant tools for your query. When you right click on the page and select properties, you can use the URL indicated in the properties to link to this list of tools. This will look like: http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/?search=finger&type_id[]=4&topic_id[]=5You can customise the elements highlighted in bold to adapt your query or search via keywords, priotity topics or type of tools..
Link to a list of tools via keywords: simply add ?search=keyword1+keyword2+etc to http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/like for example http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/?search=change+management. Keywords should be joined with a + sign.
Note! only significant and distinctive keywords will be inventorised by the search engine = omnipresent words like 'SALTO' or 'exercise' might not give any results because the words are too frequently used to be useful.
Link to a list of tools on a priority topic(EuroMed, South East Europe, etc) : simply add ?topic_id[ ]=3 or other numbers to http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/ like for example http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/?topic_id[]=3. You can find out the topic_id[ ] number by simply doing a search on 'tool topic' via http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/and right click on the results page to see the URL in 'properties'. E.g. 6 = Youth Initiatives, 3 = Anti-Racism/Diversity etc
Link to a list of a specific category of tools (energisers, manuals, simulation games, etc): simply add ?type_id[ ]=5 or other numbers tohttp://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/ like for example http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/?type_id[]=5. You can find out the type_id[ ] number by simply doing a search on 'tool type' via http:// and right click on the results page to see the URL in 'properties'. E.g. 4 = Energiser, 7 = Manual etc www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/
Or you can combine search criteria, adding them after http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/? and separating the search criteria with the& sign. For example http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-tool/?search=finger&type_id[]=4&topic_id[]=5

SALTO can also create easier links for you, like the existing /toolsinclusion/, /toolseuromed/, /toolsdiversity/ etc. Let us know viashould you have a need for this.

You can also promote the possibility to add tools via http://www.salto-youth.net/add-a-tool/where users can register and login to contribute to this online training resource.

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Link to Training Opportunities from the European Training Calendar

You can link directly to the European Training Calendar via http://www.salto-youth.net/training/but you could also send around a link to one specific training or to a specific list of training activities from the European Training Calendar.

Every training activity from the European Training Calendar has a direct link to it which you will find on the bottom of each training activity in this calendar. This looks like this: http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-training/350.html.
This could be usefull when promoting your training course or seminar and recruiting participants for it: you only need to send around a small description to your email list with the specific link to the European Training Calendar and interested candidates can follow this link for further information and to download the application form (no attachments need to be sent around anymore).
Link to a list of specific training opportunities: when doing a search for a training opportunity via http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-training/you will get a list of training activities which fulfill your search criteria. When you right click on this page and select properties, you can use the URL indicated in the properties to link to this list of training activities. This will look like:http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-training/?search=south+east+europe&termin_von=2003-11-01&termin_bis=2004-11-31. You can customise the elements highlighted in bold to adapt your query or search via keywords or dates. Simply add the keywords, connected with a + sign to http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-training/?search=keyword1+keyword2

SALTO can also create easier links for you, like /traininginclusion/ etc. Let us know via should you have a need for this.

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Link to TOY Trainers Online for Youth

If people surfing your website might be interested in finding international trainers, you can link them to http://www.salto-youth.net/toy/, but there is more. Every single trainer has his own TOY profile page and you could also link to a specific group of trainers, e.g. the ones of your country or network in order to put them in the spotlights.

Every Trainer in TOY has a direct link to their TOY profile which is mentioned on the bottom of his/her profile. It looks like this: http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-trainer/13.html. However, every trainer also has a more userfriendly URL to refer to his/her TOY profile which is http://trainers.salto-youth.net/plus their full name in one word e.g. http://trainers.salto-youth.net/TonyGeudens/. You might want to use this TOY profile link in your course descriptions to present your trainers.
Link to a specific group of trainers: when doing a search via http://www.salto-youth/find-a-trainer/you will get a list of all trainers which fit your search criteria. When you right click on the page and select properties, you can use the (long) URL indicated in the properties to link to this list of trainers. This will look like: http://www.salto-youth.net/find-a-trainer/? first=firstname&last=lastname&gender=any&nationality=any&country=any &lowdate=2002&highdate=1902&kw=keyword1+keyword2. Simply copy and paste this URL into your link (tell me how).
Link to a trainer on a specific topic: to make this query easier SALTO has created easier linkssuch as http://www.salto-youth.net/trainerseuromed/, /trainersinclusion/, /trainersantiracism/, /trainerssee/, /trainersyouthinitiatives/, etc.

Let SALTO know at should you have an interest in having similar links for a specific target group e.g. trainersbelgium, trainersvisegrad, etc

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Use our Link Pages

SALTO creates and maintains links pages on the priority topics of the European YOUTH programme. Not just a list of links, but also a little description of what you can find at the other end of the links. You can either link to ourgeneral link menu http://www.salto-youth.net/links/or to our link page on a certain topic (Europe, EuroMed, South East Europe etc) for which you find the URL on the bottom of the page e.g. http://www.salto-youth.net/links/see.html

Visitors (or you) can easily add new links and descriptions on the bottom of the different links pages. SALTO then takes care of editing and adding them to the relevant list(s) of commented links.

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Making and Customising links

Making links requires a bit of HTML knowledgeif you are not working with web-editor programmes like Frontpage or Dreamweaver. Webpages are basically written in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), which is text with the possibility to 'mark up' parts of it, meaning defining parts of texts as a paragraph, as bold, as a title etc. In order to do this HTML uses 'tags' before and after text in order to indicate what type of text there is between the tags. An opening tag(e.g. ) is accompanied by a closing tagwith slash (e.g. ).

This is a paragraph with a bit of bold

The internet browser will then translate the tags into pragraphs, bold letters etc according to the definition given to parts of the text by tags.

The tag for a hyperlink is<a>linktext</a>. You need to specify different parameters in the opening tag in order to make the link function properly. The linktext between the <a> and </a> will become clickable in the internet browser. Here are some the different elements you can define in the tag:

<a href="URL">linktext</a>: theURL is the website address that you want to link to. This could be the different links given above, starting withhttp://www.salto-youth.net/.
Opening a link in a new window: when linking to another website, it is customary to open the new page in a new window. You should add the following in an opening tag: target="_new", which then looks like this <a href="http://www.salto-youth.net" target="_new">Link to SALTO</a> (no spaces in the URL) which links you to the SALTO website in a new window.

For assistance, you can always contact Tony Geudens at

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Author: Tony Geudens / Last modified: 2007-05-30

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