To have certain links opening in a new window (and to be HTML 4.0 & XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant) use the following procedure:

1.   Create text file "external.js" containing:

function externalLinks() { 


 if (!document.getElementsByTagName) return; 


 var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a"); 


 for (var i=0; i<anchors.length; i++) { 


   var anchor = anchors[i]; 


   if (anchor.getAttribute("href") && 


       anchor.getAttribute("rel") == "external") 


     anchor.target = "_blank"; 


 } 


} 


window.onload = externalLinks;

and save this in a new directory "\scripts"

2.   Edit header secion of "homeTemplate.blogtemplate" to contain:

<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/external.js"></script>

3.    Using dasBlog's native editor (in HTML section) edit links to be in the following format:

<a href="document.html" rel="external">external link text</a>

For example:

BBC News site in new window