Hyperlinks
Perhaps the most powerful tool of the Internet is the ability to jump
from one page to another, or from one web site to another, all with a single
click of the mouse. To add this feature to your web site, you need to
make hyperlinks.
Of course, there is more that one way to do this (are you sensing a trend
here?). In FrontPage, you can make a hyperlink by first selecting the
image or text you want to be a link, then either...
- Right click, pick 'Hyperlink', or ....
- Click the 'Link' icon
 in the
tool bar, or ....
- In the menu bar, click 'Insert', 'Hyperlink'.
Doing any of these will get you to this box:
Of course, you won't see what's shown in this box, because the view depends on
what you have been working on. You have the choice of selecting your
link destination from the files shown, browsing your web for a
destination, or entering a URL in the 'Address' box. If you pick any
other location besides some file in your web or some URL on the Internet,
your link will not work.
If I wanted to
make a link to the main page at www.croakcity.com, I would enter (type or
paste)
http://www.croakcity.com/index.htm in the Address box.
Be sure to always include the http://
for Internet destinations. The best way to link to Internet
locations is to actually go to the web page and copy the URL from your
browser's
Address bar, then paste it into the Address bar in your HTML editor.
To link to a file in the exact same web folder, you need only to type the
name of the file in the Address box. To learn about relative and
absolute addresses, see the Tips page.
If you want your hyperlink to start an email program, use this format in
the Address box: mailto:
someone@somewhere.org. In FrontPage, you can click on the
Email Address button to get the correct format.
Setting a Hyperlink to Open a New Window
You may have noticed when navigating the Internet that sometime when you
click a link you go to a new page while the old page closes. At other
times, clicking a link opens a new instance of your browser, and your old
location stays open. This is a feature that you can select when you make a
hyperlink.
FrontPage defaults to hyperlinks that reuse your current browser to go to the
new page. To make your link open a new window using FrontPage, while at
the 'Insert Hyperlink' box, click 'Target Frame', then select 'New Window', then
'OK'. Put your hyperlink in the Address bar as usual.
The other 3 options in 'Target Frame' involves options used when a web site
uses 'frames'. We're not ready to cover that yet in this course.
Task 3-4
To do this task, you do not need to create a new practice file.
Using your 3 existing practice pages, make the following hyperlinks:
- Make text hyperlinks at the top of each page that will lead to the
other two pages. This will add up to a total of 6 hyperlinks (two
per page). On practice3-1.htm, make links to
practice3-2.htm and practice3-3.htm. On practice3-2.htm,
make links to practice3-1.htm and practice3-3.htm.
On practice3-3.htm, make links to practice3-1.htm and
practice3-2.htm.
- On practice3-3.htm, add 6 or more hyperlinks to websites on the
Internet. Pick some amusing or interesting sites.
- At least two of the 6 links to Internet sites should be applied to images (clicking the
image causes the link to be followed)
- At least two of the 6 links need to open a new window.
- At least two of the 6 links need to be text links where the text is
different from the actual link. For example, clicking
BUY SOME CHOCOLATE is actually a
link to www.sweetaffair.com.
When you are done, make a posting in
the Discussion Board, subject L3-4. Let us know that your L3-4
is complete and discuss the steps you took to finish this assignment.
Also discuss any problems you encountered.
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