Main Points
Links
How to use links in your page different ways for different purposes.
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Links are the most fundamental tool of the internet. They are the fundamental tool most responsible
for making the internet, flexible and powerful. There are three main kinds.
External Links are what people most commonly think of when they think of a link. When
you click on it, the link takes you to a website. The important point for an external link is that
it goes someplace external… someplace outside of your own website. It might go to Yahoo!, or a
friend’s website, a fun website, or a website that’s relevant to something on your page.
Internal Links are the bread and butter of
Website Design tools (as opposed to Webpage Design).
When you are designing your website your main concern is how your pages fit together. Internal
links form the structure of your website, they go someplace internal… your visitor winds up
someplace else that’s still on your website.
Inpage Links are slightly more difficult to program. The main reason is that none of
the webpage editors I’ve reviewed are capable of creating them
automatically. You have to program them in Wordpad using the raw HTML, not a pleasant prospect for
beginners. However, for a long and/or complicated page they are a must. Long or complicated pages
can be hard to get around unless you link related places on the page using an inpage link.
Our HTML Reference is a good example. It also has everything about
writing them. You can even use inpage links from other webpages. So if you have a lot of complicated
jargon on a website, you can create one file glossary.html where you define all your vocabulary.
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