Introduction to Webpages

Links

Hyperlinks are spots on your web page where the user can click and something will happen---usually you'll go to another web page or another spot on the same page.  When your mouse point is over a hyperlink it will change to this

Normally your mouse pointer looks like this:

When your mouse pointer is over a hyperlink it looks like this:

We'll make a links table for our penguins page.

First make a table.  Our links will be the words--"Antarctic Penguins" will be one link, and so forth.

The third link will be slightly different from the other three because it is my own web page.  The other three links will point to other web pages on the Internet, but the third "More of my penguin pics" is my own web page that will be on Tripod with this web page.

First lets make the link for Antarctic Penguins.  Select the Words Antarctic Penguins and click the hyperlink button.

 If you have a browser open to the page you want to link to, you'll find that the address will already be filled in.  That saves you work!!!!

In this instance, my Antartic Penguins link will take the user to a greenpeace website about these birds.

 What happend to my link??? Where did the words Antarctic Penguins go???

I chose blue as the background for my table.  Blue is also the color of a hyperlink.  Blue doesn't show up on blue too well.
 Fix the problem of the HYPERLINK COLORS  
Format> Style

Click Hyperlink

Now click modify 

 

   
  Click Format >Font

 
I'm choosing Arial, Bold, 14 point, red.

Click OK.

All the Hyperlinks in your document will follow this Style now.

  
   
 Another common way to deal with links is to COPY out of the Address Bar.   
   
  Then paste into the text box where the blue arrow is pointing.  

WHOOPS---I can't right click in the white box.  

WHOOPS--I can't click Edit>Paste either.

You're only other option is a keyboard shortcut for pasting.  CTRL+V

Press and hold the CTRL key, then click the V key.
   
The next link I want to deal with doesn't go to another web site.  It links to a web page I already have made.  My other penguin pictures page is called ppics.htm.

Select the text----"More of my penguin pics".  Click the hyperlink button.

 
Type the name of YOUR file where the blue arrow points.

That's it.