Operation Manual

Working with Hyperlinks and Interactivity 59
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 shape, 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 hyperlinked 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.
 Open the “Arch” sample file again and zoom in on the upper half
of the page.
 Click the
Current Page box to switch to
the Master Page layer.
 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.
 Click the
Insert Hyperlink button on the Tools 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.
 Click the drop-down list and inspect the other possible link
destinations. Note the Remove button that you could use to unlink
the selected text (if you wanted to), then click Cancel.