  We introduce a new standard form of a Seifert surface $F$. In that standard
form, $F$ is obtained by successively plumbing flat annuli to a disk $D$, where
the gluing regions are all in $D$. We show that any link has a Seifert surface
in the standard form, and thereby present a new way of coding a link. We
present an algorithm to read the code directly from a braid presentation.
