WIT 2003

Links

There are two types of links found on web pages: internal and external. External links will take you to another page (or web site) when clicked on. Internal links are called "anchors" and will take you to another location within the same page that is being viewed. Anchors (internal links) are helpful for really long pages with lots of content. You can also use images as links or anchors.

Creating Links Within the Same Page

1. Place your cursor in front of the text where you want to create an anchor (for example, look at the table above for Composer. If all of these options were on one page, I would put my cursor on the part of the page where I want the reader to end up at).
2. Open the Insert menu and click on Named Anchor
3. You will see the Named Anchor Properties box:
4. Type in a name for the anchor. For example, if I was linking to a part of the page talking about cats, I might give the anchor the name "cats" so it is easy to remember. No spaces should be in your anchor name.
5. Click OK. An anchor icon should appear where the cursor was that looks like this:
6. Next, a link needs to be created to actually get to this part of the page: select the text (or image) that you want to link to the anchor. Usually this text is located at the top of your web page so the reader can "jump down" to the anchor.
7. Click the link button or choose Insert, then Link.
8. When the Links Properties dialog box appears, click on the arrow to pull down your named anchors. Your named anchor will appear with a # symbol in front of the name. That signals that it is an anchor
9. Click OK

Note: To test the link you just created, click on the browse icon and click on the link

Note: The anchor symbols will remain invisible to people viewing your page in a browser

Creating Links to Other Pages ( in your site and to another site)

You can create links to other pages in your web site or outside links altogether. If you are linking to other pages in your web site, it is recommended that each of those pages be published first.

1. After typing in the text you want to link, highlight the text and click the link button
2. In the Links Properties box, enter the URL of the page you would like to link to:
3. Click OK
4. After saving your page, click the browse button to test your link

Tip: It is helpful to copy the URL of the site you wish to link to then paste it in the location field. This cuts down on the amount of errors in the URL

Tip: When linking to another page within your web site, you can use the "Choose File" option under link properties (shown above) to locate the page easily

Using Images as Links

You can use JPEG or GIF files to act as image links to external web pages.

1. Select an image on your page (if it is not already there, insert the image first)
2. Click the link button
3. In the Links Properties location field, type in the URL of the web page you wish to link.
4. Click OK

Note: When an image is linked a blue box will appear around the image (just like linked text will turn blue). If you want this blue box removed, open the Image Properties box, click on the Link tab, and uncheck "Show border around linked image"

You can get to the Image Properties box by right clicking on the image:

Tip: To remove any unwanted links, highlight the linked text or image, open Format menu and choose Remove Links

Click here to proceed to Images