WebTips4

Organizing the website - Optimizing Graphics - Names and Extensions - Links

Links
Link is short for hyperlink, and just like a hyperactive student, a hyperlink jumps around from place to place. Most of us today understand that if we are reading something online, and it is 'underlined' that means it will take us somewhere else. This is the most common link. Images can also be links.
 * What are links?**

Most graphic html programs will have the word "link" or an image of two or three 'links' of a chain to indicate making a link. Usually you only need to highlight the word(s) that will take the user to another spot, and then click the LINK word or image and indicate where the page can be found.
 * How do I make a link?**

Relative and Absolute links
When you put the entire web address such as: http://www.virtualclassroom.org, you are making an absolute link. It is the perfect type of link to use when you wish to go OFF your site to another site. An example might be linking to each individual school on your team.
 * What's absolute and when to use it**

Relative links are ones to pages within your own site. They do not have the http:// and do not go off your site to another site. So, for example, if you have Wild Animals on your site, and a page for lions, one for tigers, and one for bears, your links would be:
 * What's relative and when to use it**
 * lions.html
 * tigers.html
 * bears.html