User Guide

Introduction
You are in the early stages of production and have created a web and a couple standalone
pages. Now you are ready to learn how to connect your pages.
Have you ever read a text book that repeatedly referenced other works? You had every inten-
tion of looking up those supporting titles, but you never did. Why? Because it wasn’t
convenient. You didn’t remember the reference titles. You didn’t have the time or the
resources. Lots of excuses. Web sites are all about convenience and supplying information
instantly. By connecting pages logically and purposefully, you can provide visitors to your web
with all the information they could ever need.
TOPIC A
Adding Hyperlinks to Pages
You have built a couple unrelated pages and, in and of themselves, their utility is somewhat
limited. In this topic, you will learn how to connect and organize them into a useful web of
information.
Hyperlinks allow you to offer optional and immediate paths through your webs wherever you
think visitors might need them. For instance, you’re creating a page containing product
information. You put in the statement “See the manufacturer’s site for detailed warranty
information.” Why make the person find out the address of that site, and then make them look
for the specific warranty? Why not add a link that points directly to the warranty, saving
everyone time and energy? The visitor will appreciate the effort you made and will remember
that your site is not only informative but helpful as well.
What Is a Hyperlink?
Definition: A hyperlink, or link, is a method for connecting one resource, typically a Web
page, to another target resource. Links can be applied to both text and pictures.
(We will look at how to apply a link to a picture later.) By default, unvisited
text hyperlinks are displayed as underlined blue text, which may or may not
show the resource’s location. (See Table 3-1 for examples.
How links are displayed can be changed in the Page Properties dialog box
on the Background tab.
Within a link is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which provides the loca-
tion of the targeted resource. URLs are generically referred to as Web
addresses and are now sometimes called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).
URLs are built like the following:
protocol://servername/foldername/filename
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