What is a link??

A link is a "clickable" object that, when clicked, will take the viewer to a particular page, place on a page, or start a new e-mail with an address you specify. The first think we will learn is how to setup a basic link to another page on your site. Unless you plan on only having one page, this step is pretty much mandatory.

To can make an image or text link-able There are other things you can create a link with but we will concentrate on the two most common. To create a link you have to put the text or image between <a></a> tags. The a stands for anchor. Why?? I have no idea. Lets take a look and see what a link looks like anyway.

<a href="index.htm">Home</a>
The above link will make the entire word "Home" a link to index.htm.

<a href="webdesign/help.htm>Help</a>
This link goes inside a folder called "webdesign" to link to a page called help.htm. This folder must be within the directory the current page is in.

If you need to go up a folder to look for a file or folder you must put two periods in front of the path.
<a href="../index.htm">Home</a>
<a href="../webdesign/help.htm>Help</a>
Each ../ will take you up one level.

Say you are working on a page that is buried deep inside a directory structure. You wouldn't want to type ../../../../../../../ and so on, just to get to the page you want to link to. To jump to the root folder of your website you have to put a forward slash in front of your path.
<a href="/webdesign/help.htm">Help</a>

There are a few attributes that we will learn with the <a> tag. We can make pages open up on a new window, target a frame, etc. Lets learn how to make the other links first.

Now lets go to Step 2