Operation Manual

Working with Hyperlinks and Interactivity 81
In this chapter we’ll look at various 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. Hyperlinked text is common, but you can also
create “hypergraphics” using not only hyperlinks but hotspots or
rollovers. We’ll discuss how to integrate WebPlus navigation
elements—and even improve on them a bit! 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 word, a shape, or a picture means that
a visitor to your Web site can click on the object to trigger an event.
This 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
♦ The display of a graphic or text file
♦ A fullsize version of a scaled-down (thumbnail) image
Hyperlinks and anchors
Let’s begin by experimenting with hyperlinks in your template-based
site.
 Open the H
ANDSON.WPP project again and zoom in on the upper
half of the page.
 Click for a text edit cursor at the start of the central text field (just
below “Our Company”), type “About Us,” and press Return—just
to give you something specific to work with.
 Now drag over the text you typed to select it, then right-click it and
choose Hyperlink.... (You could also click the
Hyperlink
button on the Attributes toolbar, or choose the command from the
Insert menu.)
The Hyperlinks dialog appears, with a choice of possible link
destinations. Right now “No hyperlink” is selected (you could use this
choice later on if you wanted to remove a link from an object).
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