What is the best way to generate simple text links within my Footer

[Eskymo]

Hi there

My footer text links reflect my primary nav, with the addition of the following links: Sitemap, T&c's, Privacy

What is the best way to generate this list of text links?

I currently have a my footer code within a Global Content Block and call it on every page using: {global_content name='footer'}

and this contains

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<p class="footerbigpink">© {custom_copyright} Techs In The City</p>
<ul class="footernav">
    <li><a href="#">home</a> |</li>
    <li><a href="#">services</a> |</li>
    <li><a href="#">security</a> |</li>
    <li><a href="#">sales</a> |</li>
    <li><a href="#">news</a> |</li>
    <li><a href="#">case studies</a> |</li>
    <li><a href="#">library</a> |</li>
    <li><a href="#">contact</a> |</li>
    <li><a href="#">sitemap</a> |</li>
    <li><a href="#">t&c's</a> |</li>
    <li><a href="#">privacy</a></li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://www.my-igloo.net" target="_blank">Site by Eskymo New Media Design</a> | <a href="http://www.cmsmadesimple.org">Powered by CMS Made Simple v{cms_version}</a></p>

I've just got in at the moment as I just copied the code from my original HTML layout page. I'm wondering whether I should use the {cms_selflink page='url for homepage here' text='Home'} and if so how do I easily find the url for each page?

Or is there another way of generating a footer list like this?

Any help, muchly appreciate.

Many thanks
E

[climberusa]

The easiest way in this case would probably be to use the menumanager and explicitly declare which items are to be in it.

{menu template='footer.tpl' items='home, services, security,sales,news,case studies,library,contact,sitemap,tocs,privacy'}

Each item is added by it's alias.

Then you need to create the menu template which should be fairly simple. I think I've got one somewhere that is exactly like this.

Hope this helps.

[Eskymo]

could you post up the content of the menu template you have?

many thanks

E