6. create links

The Web’s magic comes largely from the hyperlink, which lets Web users jump from page to image to email to almost anywhere on the Internet. Links fall into two categories: internal links, which connect different items within your own Web site, and external links, which connect to items out on the larger Web. Before we begin linking some of the pages created in previous chapters, switch the Insert toolbar to Common, which includes link-related buttons.

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link text internally

Dreamweaver makes creating links between pages on your Web site a point-and-click affair. (See extra bits on page 88.)

link text externally

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