Redoing and Adding Links

As you are creating your own pages, you will want to create many links to other web sites and other locations in your own web site. Throughout the template, place are indicated where links should go. These links will need to be updated once you have your own content created.

To insert or update text links:

Using Dreamweaver:

1. Select the text you wish to link. (or type the text and then select it)
2. Click in the Property Box.
3. Type the location of the web page you are linking to in the "Link" Box of the Property Box.
4. If you are linking to a page in your site, just type the file name. For example, "home.html". Or you can use the Browse button (looks like a blue file folder) next to the box to find your file.

If you are linking to someone else's site, type the full URL to that site, starting with http. For example, "http://www.mscd.edu".

When linking outside your own site, it is good idea to have the other site open in their own window. It will make it easier for students to find their way back to the course pages. To do this just type, "_top" in the "Target" box in the Property box.

Using HTML code:

1. Find the text you want to link in the code. For our example, we will use "Click Here".
2. Insert the anchor or <a> tag around the text. It should now look like this:

<a>Click Here</a>

3. Identify where to link should go. We will need to add the href attribute followed by the location of the web page.

To link in your own site, it will look like this:

<a href="home.html">Click Here</a>

To link to another web page, it will look like this:

<a href="http://www.mscd.edu">Click Here</a>

To have that web page open in its own window add the target attribute, like this:

<a href="http://www.mscd.edu" target = "_top">Click Here</a>