November 2014
Beginner to intermediate
1026 pages
33h 9m
English
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Chapter 4. Links
The humble hyperlink may not raise eyebrows anymore, but the notion that you can navigate a whole sea of information, jumping from one island of content to another with a simple mouse click, is a powerful phenomenon. Interested in a particular band? Go to Google, type in the band’s name, click to go to its website, click to see its upcoming gigs, click to go to the venue’s website, and then click to buy tickets.
Although embedding links is a basic task in building web pages, and even though Dreamweaver—for the most part—shields you from the complexities of doing so, links can be tricky to understand. The first section of this chapter gives you an overview of links and explains the technical distinctions between different types of links. The rest of the chapter, with sections on formatting the appearance of your links and creating navigation menus, will help turn you into a link-crafting maestro.
Note
If you already understand links, or if you’re eager to start using them, jump to the tutorial in Tutorial: Adding Links to Pages.
Understanding Links
Links are snippets of HTML that give web browsers directions to get from one web page to another. What makes links powerful is that the distance covered by those directions doesn’t matter. A link can lead to another page on the same site just as easily as it can lead to a page on a web server halfway around the globe. Behind the scenes, a simple HTML tag called the anchor tag (<a>) makes each and every link work. Links come ...
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