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I am currently working on checklists for species in our area of France (37, 36 and 87). My trial run (orchids) is a Google doc imported into Blogger at the moment, and shows scientific name, English name, French name and flowering period. I want the table to also have a column containing links to species accounts and this is where I have run into trouble. My idea was to write the species accounts as individual blog posts which could be linked to, but a) the html for creating a link in Google docs is really clunky, and b) it cannot be made to open in a new window. Consequently, the species accounts all repeat the Blog Heading and look really naff ie the whole page opens, not just that post, plus it's annoying if you are wanting to compare two species not to have them open simultaneously in two separate pages.

I've tried doing the species accounts in Google docs of their own, which is OKish, but they do lose out aesthetically. This is intended to be a website for enthusiastic amateurs, so being pretty as well as informative is a consideration.

The only other ways I can think of to work around it is to make a proper website, but that would involve buying a domain name plus I don't think I'm up to all the extra coding; or create the species accounts as pdf, but this will be slow for the user and a lot of people don't like pdf.

Has anyone done anything similar that I could look at, and does anyone have any ideas for how to make it work?