Operation Manual

Working with Hyperlinks and Interactivity 83
 Use the Page Locator (or any other method) to display the “News”
page, and select the last word (“Samples”) of the frame at the
lower right. Right-click it and the Anchor dialog pops up, asking
for a name. The default name “Anchor1” is fine, so just click OK.
This time there’s no visible change on the page, but WebPlus is
keeping track.
 Redisplay the Home page and this time right-click on one of the
lemon-shaped graphics. Choose Hyperlink... and this time select
An anchor in your site. In the Page name list, choose “News.”
As you can see, the Anchors list lets you select your target from
any anchor on the designated page. Since there’s just the one, go
ahead and click OK.
 Again, you can test the link in preview mode. If you set the display
to 640x480 (using the floating Preview toolbar), you’ll be able to
see how the browser window zeroes in on the actual anchor
location when the page is displayed.
If you tried the examples above, you learned that hyperlinking a
graphic was just as easy as hyperlinking text. (Of course, linking from a
meaningless graphic to a random word made no particular sense... but
at least it proved the point!) Now that you’ve seen one way of creating
a “hypergraphic” by linking the entire object, we’ll look at two other
methods.
Using hotspots and rollovers
A hotspot is a transparent hyperlink region on a Web page. Usually
placed on top of bitmap images, hotspots act like buttons that respond
when clicked in a Web browser. They are especially useful if you want
the visitor to be able to click on different parts of a picture (such as a
graphical “menu” or map of your site). To give you an idea of how they
work, we’ll need to create one.
 Click the
Insert Hotspot button (the first on the Tools
toolbar’s Web Objects flyout). The cursor changes to a cross.
Let’s place a hotspot over the lion’s face in the photo. (If your site
doesn’t include the lion photo from the last chapter, just use one of the
placeholder graphics.)