Making Your Links Go Anywhere You Want: Example 1

This page contains some "raw materials" for constructing your next example page.

First, copy all of the text below (between the two horizontal lines) into your computer's clipboard, by highlighting (selecting) it with the mouse and pressing <CTRL><C>:


This page demonstrates various kinds of links. The simplest kind of link simply
connects you to a page on another site, such as the Twinplanets Home Page.



You may want to actually let the viewer see the URL they're going to, if you expect
your page to be printed out and saved for some reason. This is especially useful in
directories of various sorts, so that the user does not always have to navigate to the
page with the link just to get to their destination. To do this, just use the
URL as the text to be displayed as the link, like this: www.ala.org




When you do this, it's very important to remember that in the HREF version
of the URL, you must include the http:// at the beginning of the
URL, even though you don't have to display it to the user.




Links don't have to be text. You can also use a graphic as a link, 
as at the left here. This link isn't very useful, though,
because the user has no idea what it goes to! (Of course, if you create a graphic which includes
a built-in label of some kind this isn't a problem).




What's a little less confusing is to include a caption of some kind.
Even better still is to include the caption as part of the link, so that if the user
clicks on either the graphic or the text link it will work, like this:




Now we're going to digress by briefly covering lists. Here are a few sample lists:



Days of the week:


Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday




Months of the year:


January

February

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Second, copy each of the graphics below to your hard disk, after writing down the filenames (refer back to lesson 3 if you've forgotten how to do this):

star3.gif

star4.gif

gcanyon.gif

Now return to the tutorial and continue with the lesson in progress.