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Hyperlinks - or what make the Internet go 'round!
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Hyperlinks are all those things that you click on to
get somewhere else while on the Internet. You can
put a hyperlink on a word or image as shown below.
The default color for unvisited links is blue and
changes to purple once you have visited the link. |
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FrontPage tutorial
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A hyperlink can
take you to another page in your site, to an
Internet site outside of your site, to an
email
address or even to another spot right on the same
page.
Begin with "Making Hyperlinks"
or jump to how to insert a link to:
another page in your site
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an email address
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Internet site |
a bookmark |
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Making Hyperlinks |
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Highlight
the word you want to change to a hyperlink by
clicking, holding and dragging your mouse over the
word, or click on the image, icon or button that you
want to become a hyperlink.
You have 3 options to edit your
hyperlink:
- Right
click and choose "hyperlink"
- On the
menu bar choose "Insert" and "hyperlink"
- OR - my
favorite - Ctrl + K
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Look closely on
the left side of this dialogue box.
You can link to:
- an
existing file - one of the files you created in
your site
- an
existing web page - an outside Internet page
- A place in
this document (referred to as a bookmark)
Create new document (but let's not do
that, it will not have the header and navigation
that is built into the template pages. Use the
template option.- An e-mail
address
The dialogue
box changes depending on what you choose. |
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Linking to
Another Page in Your Site. |
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Linking to another page in your site.
Highlight
the word you want to change to a hyperlink by
clicking, holding and dragging your mouse over the
word. |
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Open the hyperlink dialogue box.
Choose "existing file" on the left. In the "Current
Folder" click on the page you want to link to. |
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Linking to an Internet
Page |
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To link to an
outside Internet page: Choose "existing file or web
page". Open the web page you want to link to.
Click in the
address bar: press Ctrl +C (copy). |
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Back in FrontPage
toward the bottom of the hyperlink dialogue box,
click in "Address". Then press Ctrl +V (insert).
On the left of the
dialogue box you will see an option to change the
target frame. Click "target frame" and choose "new
window". This lets your reader know that they are
visiting a site outside of the pages you created.
Annoying, yes, but a gentle reminder to students
that they have left your page. |
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Creating
an E-Mail Link |
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Choose e-mail
address. As you begin to type your e-mail address
"mailto" is automatically inserted. You can choose
to put a "subject" in. |
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Creating bookmarks within you page.
(or linking to other places on your page) |
Ideally your pages should be only the size of the screen since most people don't like to scroll.
But this page is longer and you are still reading
;) I just got wordy today!
Place your curser
where you want the bookmark to be. Go to "Insert"
--> "Bookmark", or Ctrl +G. Type in the bookmark
name.
Now return to the area of the page where the
hyperlink will be. Highlight that word or image and
bring up your Hyperlink dialogue box (Ctrl +K).
Choose "Place in this document" and click on the
name of the bookmark. That's it! |
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