Links

What are links?

 

In HTML “Links” link one page to another page.

How to create a link to another page. It's a set tag format. Once you learn the format, you can make as many links as you want to any other page/s you want.

Now an example: What is below would create a link to the HTML Websitedynamics.com home page.

<A HREF=" http://www.websitedynamics.com ">Click Here To View Websitedynamics.com</A>

 

Here's What's Happening

• A stands for Anchor. It begins the link to another page.
• HREF stands for Hypertext REFerence. That's a nice, short way of saying to the browser, "This is where the link is going to go."
• http://www. websitedynamics.com is the FULL ADDRESS of the link. Also notice that the address has an equal sign in front of it and is enclosed in quotes. Why? Because it's an attribute of the Anchor tag, a command inside of a command.
• Where it reads " Click Here To View Websitedynamics.com " is where you write the text you want to appear on the page. What is in that space will appear on the page for the viewer to click. So, write something that denotes the link.
• /A ends the Link Tag.

Here's what will appear on the page using the command above...

 Click Here To View Websitedynamics.com

Now, without clicking, simply lay your pointer on the green words. You'll see the address of the link you created come up along the bottom of the browser window, down where it usually reads "Document Done".

What To Write For The Link?

There are a couple different schools of thought on this. One suggests that what you write for links should be quite blatant. This includes text like "Click here for this" or "Here's a link to...". The other states that since the hypertext links will be blue (or whatever color they're set to), that the links should be just another word in the text set up as a link.

I believe a little of both. I'm of the opinion your readers should be allowed to have a very easy time of it all in terms of navigating your Web pages. But it's your page and you make that decision.