Operation Manual
Working with Hyperlinks and Interactivity 51
In this chapter we’ll look at several ways you can enhance your
WebPlus pages to improve the quality and variety of the visitor’s
experience. If your site has more than one page, hyperlinking is
essential—it’s what enables visitors to navigate through your site—and
it’s easily accomplished. Adding Java and HTML is somewhat more
challenging, but if you’re technically inclined, WebPlus stands ready to
support your efforts.
Hyperlinking an object such as a box, a word, or a picture means that a
visitor to your Web site can click on the object to trigger an event. The
event might be:
♦
A jump to a Web page (either on your site or somewhere else on
the Web);
♦ The appearance of an e-mail composition window; or
♦
The display of a graphic or text file.
You can also place hyperlink hotspots over parts of the page. Let’s
begin by taking a look at hyperlinks in your Wizard-based publication.
Hyperlinking text
As a visual cue, hyperlinked words on Web pages are underlined.
Y Set your display so you can read the coumn of underlined text on
the left side of the Home page (page 1).
Y Click the
&XUUHQW3DJH box to switch to
the Master Page layer.
Y Choose the Text tool and single-click on the words “About Us.”
Because this is an “answer text” field, you’ll see an insertion point
just before or after the words.
Y Click the
,QVHUW+\SHUOLQN button on the top toolbar.
The Hyperlinks dialog appears, and the words “About Us” are
highlighted because they already include a hyperlink. In the dialog, you
can see that the link’s destination is “A page in your publication”—
page 2 to be precise.
Y Click the drop-down list and inspect the other possible link
destinations. Note the 5HPRYH button that you could use to unlink
the selected text (if you wanted to), then click &DQFHO.