Had a brainwave on the way home. External links are now styled in bold italics underline. This took one change in the code I generate in the PHP, and one additional line in the css. Done. The history and reason for italics is this is what Apple used to denote aliases (Unix: links, Windows: shortcuts) to other files. Links that are just bold italics underline are internal to this site.
Did a strange thing today. Internally, we have an intranet server we call skippy. In Adobe Pacific, we try to theme the naming of our servers around Skippy, the TV show. You know, Clancy, Sonny, Ranger, Waratah! I’ve just taken over the management of this server and installed Adobe GoLive Web Workgroup Server, PHP, MySQL, FileMaker Pro Server, JSP, WebDAV. Basically, anything we might need for the future. Taking the code that runs this web site (see: How the mungenetengine works) and installing it onto this server : I now have a fully dynamic intranet site, based on exactly the same code.
Now its easy to intranet blogging, internal link listing – without having to cut code on a daily basis.