building a basic web page

6. Links and Anchors

Any text element or graphic image on your page can be a hypertext link to another page in your Web site or to a URL on the world wide web.

LINKS to URLs

• Highlight the text or image you wish to make into a link
• Select the Link Editor The window below will open

• Either type the URL in (if you know it) or Browse Files if the URL is in one of your folders.
  NB: URLs can be copied and pasted in.
  
• The Text or Image will change to underlined blue to identify it as a link.
  NB: Text in colours other than black or default will not change colour.

ANCHORS
You can create links that jump to anchors on the same page that contains the link or that jump to anchors on other pages in your Web site. This is especially useful if you intend using an Index with a lot of articles on the one page.

• Place the cursor where you would like the anchor to be and select the Insert Anchor icon
  The window below will open
  
• Name the Anchor (something simple is best)
  
• Highlight the text or image which will serve as the link to the anchor. For example if you click on Anchor here the link will jump to the top of the page.
  Click on the to return here

TIP: To remove the visible border from a linked image:

Select the image, and choose Object Editor from the Window menu
Type 0 in the Border text box.
Close the Image Object Editor.

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