Operation Manual

Working with Hyperlinks and Interactivity 47
Y Click slightly to the upper left of the butterfly, then drag down and
right to draw a box. (You can
adjust it later.)
When you release the mouse
button, the familiar Hyperlinks
dialog appears. This time, it’s
waiting for you to provide a
destination.
Y Select “A page in your publication” and designate page 2 in the
drop-down list. Click 2..
If necessary, you can use the Pointer tool to move or resize a hotspot,
like any graphic. There’s no limit to the number of hotspots you can
use. You can also add extra nodes to a hotspot, allowing it to be fit into
any irregular region; there’s more on this in online help.
About HTML and Java
HTML, of course, is the language “behind” basic Web pages—the
actual descriptive code that tells a browser what to display and where to
display it. While WebPlus doesn’t support full-fledged HTML editing,
it does allow you to add extra HTML code to a page. Using this
approach, you can include HTML fragments generated by another
application, copied from another Web page, or perhaps that you’ve
written yourself.
Clicking the
,QVHUW+70/ button brings up a dialog that lets you
enter the HTML code. WebPlus inserts a marker into your publication
at the site where the code will run. Since you won’t be able to see the
effect of the HTML until you preview the exported site, be careful to
position the marker correctly. You’ll definitely want to check your Web
page in a browser!
Java is a cross-platform, object-oriented programming language used
to create mini-applications called applets that can be attached to Web
pages and that run when the page is viewed in a Web browser.
WebPlus lets you add Java applets to your Web publications. You don’t
have to write your own! Plenty of applets are available online—for
example animation, interface components, live information updating,
two-way interaction, graphics rendering, live updating, streaming audio
and video, games, and many more.