Adding Page Links

You may want to add links to some of your pages on your other pages, here are some details.

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Adding a normal link:
To add a normal link to a page, use the following code:

<a href="newpage.htm">Link name goes here</a><br />

Then you can make a copy of one of your existing pages and name it "newpage.htm".

IMPORTANT TIP: To be sure you are linking the exact file name: In Windows Explorer find and highlight the file you want to create a link for. For example, you have made a copy of the "about.htm" and you have named it "company.htm". Or perhaps you have a PDF file named "July 28th 2005-Quarterly Commitment Report.pdf". Highlight this file, then on your keyboard select the "F2" key. Now hit "copy" on the menu and the ESC (so you don't rename the file). Now you can paste the exact link name into your HTML page or .js file rather than having to re-type the name for the link. On some Microsoft keyboards you will need to click the "F Lock" key first to do the rename.


Adding a link to another website:
To add a link to another website like "Visit Yahoo!" for example, use the following code:

<a href="http://yahoo.com">Visit Yahoo!</a><br />

Adding an E-mail link:
If you add your e-mail to one of the pages, search engines can see it and you may receive more spam mail. The following code uses Javascript so your e-mail is not seen on the page. Copy and paste the following code:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- var emailname = "yourname"; var emailserver = "yourdomain.com"; document.write("<a href="'mailto:" class="links">"); document.write(emailname + "@" + emailserver); document.write("</a>"); //--> </script>

This is how the above will appear on your webpage:

yourname@yourdomain.com


Adding links to other file types:
You can also add links to other file types like .pdf, .wav, .wmv, .rm, .ram, .jpg or any other file type you normally see on the web. You will use the same basic code as the "normal link" seen above. Below are a couple of examples:

<a href="yourfile.pdf">PDF file name goes here</a><br />

<a href="yourmovie.wmv">WMV movie file name goes here</a><br />

<a href="yoursound.mp3">Your song name goes here</a><br />

<a href="yourpicture.jpg">Your image name goes here</a><br />

Then you will put the file you are linking to in your website folder. When another file type is opened by one of your users the appropriate application will open on the users computer. Keep in mind that for example, if you click on a .wmv movie file it may open windows media player on your computer, but it might open quicktime on another computer. It all depends on what application is associated for which file on the given computer.

Related Topics:
New Window Target Links
Links Not Working After an Edit
Editing the Menus

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