Adding Links to your Page
Web sites seldom have a single HTML document to display all of the information contained within the site. For a number of reasons, it is better to have several small pages rather than to have one page containing all of our web site information.
Hypertext links can be used to:
- Link to other HTML Documents in our Web Site
- Links to other Web Sites.
- Link to the browser's email function.
- Links to files on our web page.
The link tag is the <A>
To create a link in an HTML document, use the <A> …….<A>.
This tag is often called the Anchor Tag.
Open the first.html file into your editor, or create a new document. It should look like this:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> My First HTML Document </TITLE>
< BODY >
Everything that I want to put on my page goes here between the Body Tags
</BODY >
</HTML >
To create a link to another HTML document on our web site:
Below the text: "Everything that I want...... Body Tags", type the following:
<A HREF="otherpage.html">Go to my other page</a>
To create a link to the SeniorNet Web Page do the following:
<A HREF="http://www.seniornet.org"> SeniorNet Web Page </A>
Now lets create a link to a browser email function so people can give you feedback on your page.
After the SeniorNet Link, type the followink:
Send your comments to: <a href="mailto:jphelps@ipa.net"> jphelps@ipa.net</a>:
We are going to create a Link to download a file. Type the following after your email link.
All of the graphics on this page have been put into one compressed file called
<A HREF="graphics.zip">graphics.zip.</a> You may download it by clicking the link.
OK Jim, now show me how all this will look on my page.