One of the major advantages of the HTML format over older hyperlinking protocols was that HTML pages can contain links to other pages as part of the normal content. Any text or image in your content can be linked to any other web page on the web. You can also link it to “anchors” within the same document, automatically scrolling the page to that anchor when the viewer selects that link.
Links generally appear as colored text which change color when the viewer visits the link.
It is important to choose good, descriptive things for the reader to click on. Remember that not everyone is reading your web page from a ‘standard’ browser. Some will be having the web page read to them. Some will be reading from tiny PDAs which will summarize the links and their clickable text. Search engines also use link text to weight the linked pages.
If all of your links use the text “click here”, those summaries will be worthless to your viewers. It is better to link actual descriptive text, such as “Hoboes Web Tutorial” or “Jesus and Friends”.
If you make clickable images, you need to make those links descriptive also. Make sure you set the ‘alternate text’ for the image. See the section on images for more information.
- Remote Pages
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- Local Pages
- Local Pages in Easy Web Design: Linking
- Named Anchors
- Normally, you will not have multiple large sections on a single page. If you have multiple large sections, you’ll probably want to separate the sections out into multiple pages, one for each section. Sometimes, however, you will want to have a long page and link to different places within that page.
- E-Mail Addresses
- You can link to any Internet service that has a “protocol” abbreviation for URLs. A URL is a Universal Resource Locator. It can link to any resource that can be linked to. The web protocol abbreviation is “http”. If you ever have to link to a gopher site, you’ll use “gopher://hostname/path”, and similarly for ftp sites. You almost never see those nowadays, but you do still occasionally see e-mail address links. The protocol name for an e-mail URL…
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