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A Hyperlink is an image, or some text, on a Web page that is linked to another Web page. This second page may be on the same site as the first or on a completely different website. Clicking on the link with the left hand mouse button will take the user to the other Web page. Words or phrases which serve as links are underlined, or appear in a different colour, or both. Images that serve as links have a border around them, or they change the cursor to a little hand as it passes over them. Links can also be used to 'jump' to another area in the same page. A Tool tip is text that will appear when a mouse is
hovered over the link prior to actually clicking it. Internal links to a website will normally use the same window, whereas a link which takes the viewer to a new site should open in a new window. That way the visitor still has your site open in a window and can come back to you at any time. To open a new window with a link the target should be set to 'blank'. In short, a Hyperlink works like a jump point that takes you all around the World Wide Web. It is the existence of Hyperlinks which makes the power of the Web come to fulfilment. Inserting an internal hyperlink: To insert an internal hyperlink (one that will take you to
another page within your own website, click the Internal Hyperlink
icon: A new window will pop-up telling you that you have to highlight some text (or select a picture) before you can enter a link. This is because the link requires 'something' to actually be attached to. Having highlighted some text, click on the icon again.
This time another new window will pop-up.
Clicking on the left hand side will drop the page list down. Select the page that you want to link to and also note that you could make the link to an image or a document if you wanted to. The name of the page (or image or document) is copied into the page box on the right hand side. This is the destination where the hyperlink will take anyone who clicks on it. Fill in the Tool tip Box with the text that you want to be displayed when a mouse is moved over the link and finally select the window to be the same as it is a page still within your website.
Having completed all that click on Ok. To find the Ok button you may have to make the window full size just to see the buttons at the bottom. This will return you to the HTML editor. Click into the window and you will see that the text you had highlighted to be the link is now in a different colour and underlined.
Update the contents of the editor and save the page. Swap browser windows and check that your link works properly on the actual Internet.
Inserting an external hyperlink To put a Hyperlink in your page that will link to another web page on the Internet, first find the address of the page that you intend to link to. Open a new browser window, find the page and copy the address of the page. Then go back into the html editor. Highlight the words you
want to use as a link and click on the External Hyperlink button
By clicking into the URL: box you will be able to paste the address of the page you want to use. Be sure to remember to include the http:// at the beginning of the address. If you wish to hyperlink to an email address, in the URL box type mailto: followed by the email address you wish to link to. For example mailto:badactors@hotmail.com Add a meaningful Tool tip that will pop-up on screen when the visitor moves their mouse over the link. As it is an external page that you are linking to, use a new window for the target box. This will make sure that any visitors to your site didn't just browse away and never come back. For those who may wish to know, a URL is a Uniform Resource Locator - The World Wide Web address of a site on the Internet. Click on OK in the window. This will take you back to the editor.
The link will have been created (the text is underlined and in a different colour). If you have already visited the site then the link will look different as 'visited links' are differently coloured. This lets you know you have already been there. It is advisable to check periodically that the external page is still there. Failure to check may result in outdated links being left on your website.
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