Hyperlinks
connect Web pages. Hyperlinks can connect pages that are part
of the same Web site, or they can link to other Web sites.
A hyperlink can consist of text or images that have been encoded
such that when a site visitor invokes the text or image (usually
by clicking) a new page of material is presented by the browser.
There are four
types of links:
External
link
A link to a Web
page outside of your Web site. An "off-site" link.
This type of link requires an absolute URL.
Internal
link
A link to another
page within your site. While not required, internal links
should use relative URLs. Dreamweaver will create relative
URLs by default.
Targeted
link
A link to a specific
location on a page (other than the top of a page, which
is the browser default).
Email link
While not technically
a hyperlink in that invoking an email link does not cause
a new page of information to be opened in a browser, an
email link causes the default email program on the viewer's
computer to open and inserts the email address specified
in the link in the To: field of the compose window in the
email program.
