8. Linking it with Anchors
Relax... this lesson is quick and easy! In fact, it is just
information for you to read...
What is a URL?
The real power of the web is the ability to create hypertext
links to related information. That other information may be other web pages,
graphics, sounds, digital movies, animations, software programs, contents
of a Gopher server, a log-in session to a remote computer, or a software archive, or "ftp" site.
The World Wide Web uses an addressing scheme known as
URLs, or
Uniform Resource Locators (sometimes also called "Universal Resource Locators"), to
indicate the location of such items. These hypertext links, the ones
usually underlined in blue, are known as
anchors.
In the next lessons we will:
- Review the concept of URLs
- Find and copy URLs from your web browser to your HTML text document.
- Write an HTML anchor to link to another document in the same
directory as our first document.
- Write an HTML anchor to link to another document in a different
directory as our first document.
- Write an HTML anchor to link to another Web document on the
Internet.
- Write an HTML anchor to link to a Gopher Server.
- Write an HTML anchor that links to another
section of the same document.
- Incorporate a graphic that acts as a "hyperlink" to another
document.
Wow! That sounds like a lot to do! Don't worry -- it is no more complex than
what you have done up to this point. After all, without the hypertext, we
would be only calling this "Writing TML" and not Writing HTML
Coming Next....
Using URLs to connect documents together via hypertext links.
Writing HTML Lesson 8: Linking it with Anchors
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