Dreamweaver CS5: The Missing Manual

Adding a Link

If all that talk of links gets you confused, don’t worry. Links are confusing, and that’s one of the best reasons to use Dreamweaver. If you can navigate to a document on your own computer or anywhere on the Web, you can create a link to it in Dreamweaver, even if you don’t know the first thing about URLs and don’t intend to learn the details of how to configure them.

Browsing for a File

To create a link from one page to another on your local website, use the Property inspector’s “Browse for File” button (see Figure 5-3) or its keyboard shortcut, as described in the following steps.

Figure 5-3. The Property inspector provides three ways to add links to a web page: the Link field, the “Point to file” tool, and the “Browse for File” button.

To browse for a file in Dreamweaver, you use the same type of dialog box that you use to open or save a file, making “Browse for File” the easiest way to add a link. (To link to a page on another website, you need to type the web address into the Property inspector. Turn to Using the Point-to-File Tool for instructions.)

1. In the document window, select the text or image you want to link from.

   You can select a single word, a sentence, or an entire paragraph. When you add a link to text, the selected words appear in blue and underlined (depending on your visitors’ web browser settings), like billions of links before them.

   In addition, you can ...