Creating Links

Regardless of the type of link, making links involves two main steps:

1. Identify the text or image that is to serve as the link.

2. Identify the location of the page that is to open in the browser when the link is clicked.

External links

Use an external link to link to a Web page that is not part of your own site. That is, to link to another Web site.

1. Select the text or image to serve as the link:

   Highlight the text by clicking and dragging:

   OR

Click on an image:

2. Insert the Web address (URL) of the site to which you want to link in the Link field of the Property Inspector as shown:

   

Internal links

Use an internal link to link the pages of your own site together. The pages should be in the same folder as the current page.

Because such links refer to other saved documents on your computer, you should always save a new document before creating internal links.

1. Select the text or image that is to serve as the link:

   Highlight the text by clicking and dragging: 

   OR

   Click on the image:

2. Insert the filename of the page to which you want to link in the Link field of the Property Inspector in one of the following ways:

   • Browse to the file:

1. Locate the file by clicking on the folder icon as shown:
   

2. Navigate to the file you want to link to.

3. Select the file name.

4. Click Open.

• Type the filename directly into the Link field.

  NOTE: this will only work if the file that you are linking to is in the same folder as the current page!

Targeted links

Use this type of link to connect parts of the same Web page, or to link to a specific point on another Web page (rather than having the page display begin at the top of the page, which is the browser default). Targeted links are very useful for creating cross-references on a page.

Creating targeted links is a two-step process:

1. Identify the location (on the page) to which you want to be able to link (called the anchor or target).

2. Create the link.

Identify the target (anchor)

1. Bring the portion of your page to which you want to be able to link into view in your browser window.

2. Place your cursor at the location you would like to link to.

3. Choose Invisible Tags - Named Anchor from the Insert menu.

4. Type a name for this location on the page on the Anchor Name: field. The name can be any word or words you choose, but for best results choose something meaningful. The name may not contain any spaces:

5. Click OK as shown above.
   This inserts an invisible element icon on the page similar to this: .
   This icon will not appear on your published page on the Web. It merely serves as a place-holder while you're working on your page.

Create the targeted link

1. Select the text that will serve as the link.

2. Enter the Anchor Name in the Link field of the Property Inspector:

• Type # followed by the name of the anchor used in Step 4 above (no spaces allowed, case sensitive):

  
  

Email links

1. Select the text or image to serve as the email link.

2. Insert the URL for the email address to which you want to link in the Link field of the Property Inspector.  Email URLs look like this: mailto:wagonerbj@unk.edu.

   NOTE: That the URL begins with mailto: and, like all URLs, it does not contain spaces.

Removing links

Regardless of the type of link (external, internal, targeted, or email), the method for removing a link is the same:

1. Select the text or image that currently contains the hyperlink information.

2. Delete the URL shown in the Link field on the Property Inspector.

3. Press Return.

Editing links

To change the URL associated with a hyperlink:

1. Select the text or image that currently contains the hyperlink information.

2. Change the URL shown in the Link field on the Property Inspector:

• Edit the address "by hand"

• Browse to a different file name by clicking the yellow folder icon.

3. Press Return.

To change the text associated with a hyperlink simply use standard word processing techniques to change the words that serve as the clickable text for the link.