LINKING TO OTHER PAGES AND EMAIL |
LESSON #6 |
Plus I will assume that in the end you will want to create more than one page. If you do you must link all your pages together. That's why they call it the Web.
It is very similar to a spider web! If a spider spun threads and none of them linked up to form a net he'd never catch any flies.
Links are what makes the Internet work!
Making links
Okay I assume you have the webapge you've been working on open in AOLPRESS.
Now any letter, word or phrase you want to highlight can be a text. For our example let's type:
Visit Maynardville.Com
Type that somehwhere on your page. Once you have it typed highlight it with
your cursor. Then simply click the following button:
This will bring up the following box:
In the box below Link To Page type in:
http://www.maynardville.com
Then hit the OK button.
This takes you back to the page you are working on. Now the phrase "Visit Maynardville.Com" has been turned into a link. Any person visiting your page can click it and go to Maynardville.Com.
You can use this to link to your own pages too!
For example you create another page called "anotherpage.htm" and save it in the same directory as the page you are currently working on. You would highlight the text you want to use for a link, click the link button and when the box comes up you would enter anotherpage.htm instead of http://www.maynardville.com. Since the page you are linking to this time is your own and in the same directory as your webpage you don't have to use all that http:www stuff.
Now you may want to use buttons or images for links and you can do that too. We'll show you later how to add images to your page, and once you do you just highlight them like you do text, there is no difference. Anything you can highlight can be turned into a link.
E-MAIL LINKS
Maybe it isn't another page you want tp provide a link to. Maybe you want to create a link so people can email you.
Easy Cheesy!
Type EMAIL ME on your page anywhere you want. Highlight it with your cursor. Go up to your toolbar and click on
Element 
Email Link
and the following box will appear:
Just type your email address in there and hit the OKAY button. You just turned
EMAIL ME into a clickable link. When someone clicks it their browser will
get an email ready for them to send to you already addressed.
Don't forget to save your webpage...
File > Save As > Make sure location is right and then click the
button.
FAQ
Q) Can I create a way to tell how many times a link has been clicked?
Yes and no, you can but it requires more than HTML can do. There are several free services on the net that can do that for you. Or once you get good with HTML we can write you a program to do it.
Q) What does that Append Anchor Name mean in the email dialogue box?
It is a way to link to another part of the same page you are on. We'll cover it in the next advanced class. For the time being learn the basics and get you a page online.
Q) I have been checking Tools
Show HTML while I have followed along where is the code for the link I just
made?
Well look for something that looks similar to this:
<A
HREF="http://www.maynardville.com">CLICK HERE</A>
Whatever site you linked to will be where the blue text is in my example and the text you highlighted will be where my red letters are.
In fact Copy this line and put it in the Online Editor above (below the <p>) and click View to see how a link works.
<A HREF="http://www.maynardville.com">CLICK HERE</A>