Website Tutor - Lesson 6

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Lesson 6

Let's learn about links.

It's really very simple. We'll make a link to Yahoo.
Start with this...

<BODY>
Go to Yahoo!
</BODY>

Go to Yahoo!

Then add a pair of anchor tags.

<BODY>
Go to <A>Yahoo!</A>
</BODY>

Go to Yahoo!

Add the URL and you're done! URL Stands for Universal Resource Locator. That's a big fancy phrase that the computer people came up with. They tend to do that alot. A URL is just an address.

<BODY>
Go to <A HREF="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!</A>
</BODY>

Go to Yahoo!

Let's do one more.

<BODY>
Go to Netscape!
</BODY>

Go to Netscape!

<BODY>
Go to <A HREF="http://home.netscape.com/">Netscape!</A>
</BODY>

Go to Netscape!

An email link works the same way. We just use an email address instead of a page address.

<BODY>
Send me <A HREF="mailto:forrest@bubbagump.com">Mail!</A>
</BODY>

Send me Mail!

We can make an image a link if we want. Using the 'Go to Netscape!' example above we simply substitute an <IMG> tag for the word Netscape!

<BODY>
Go to <A HREF="http://home.netscape.com/"><IMG SRC="chef.gif" WIDTH=130 HEIGHT=101></A>
</BODY>

Go to

<BODY>
Go to <A HREF="http://home.netscape.com/"><IMG SRC="chef.gif" WIDTH=130 HEIGHT=101 BORDER=0></A>
</BODY>

Go to

One more note about links... It is perfectly acceptable to link to someones page(s) without asking. Links are what makes the Web the Web.

Now that you've learned how to make links, I'm going to tell you about one of my pet peeves. I hate searching for information on widgets and all I get are pages with 14 dozen LINKS to widget sites and nothing else. I follow some of those links and I get MORE LINKS to more widget link sites... but never any friggin widgets!

If you're making a page, of course include links if you think it adds value, but try to refrain from having a page that consists of nothing more than links and links that link to even more links!

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