Links: FrontPage Express
Creating Links

Review of Hyperlinks A hyperlink is a direct connection from the current location of the cursor to another location.

You can create an absolute hyperlink to another web site.

You can create a relative hyperlink to another document within your own web site.

You can create a mailto hyperlink to an email message preaddressed to whoever you designate.

You can also create an internal hyperlink to another position in your current document.

For example, you may want to place a hyperlink at the bottom of a web page that will take the visitor back up to the top of that same web page.

Or you might want to provide a short table of the contents of a particular web page and link each item in the table of contents to the exact position farther down on the web page where the discussion of that item begins.

When we create this internal hyperlink we are hyperlinking to a place on the web page that is variously referred to as a bookmark, a marker, or a target.
Internal Bookmarks To create a bookmark at a location in a web page:
  • Position your cursor at your bookmark target location.
  • Choose Edit, Bookmark from the main menu.  The Bookmark dialog box will appear.
Bookmark box
  • If you have highlighted a word where you wish the bookmark to appear, that word will appear in the Bookmark Name dialog box.
  • If you haven't highlighted a word or if you wish to change the bookmark name, type the desired name in the Bookmark Name text box.
  • Click on OK
To create a hyperlink to the bookmark:
  • Highlight the clickable text.
  • Click on the Create or Edit Hyperlink button on the Standard toolbar. The Create Hyperlink box will appear.
  • Click on the Open Pages tab

Create Hyperlink button
Create Hyperlink button

Edit Hyperlink: Open Pages tab

  • Your page will appear in the Open Pages window.
  • Highlight your page.
  • Click on the Bookmark dropdown box.
  • Choose your bookmark.
  • Click on OK.
You might want to link to a bookmark in another file in your web site.   To do so, take the following steps:
  • Open the second page in the FrontPage Editor before you create the hyperlink.  Otherwise the list of  bookmarks in that page may not appear in the dropdown list.
  • Return to your initial file. 
  • Highlight the clickable text.
  • Click on the Create or Edit Hyperlink button on the Standard toolbar. The Create Hyperlink box will appear.
  • Click on the Open Pages tab
  • Highlight the page the bookmark is on.
  • Choose your bookmark.
  • Click on OK

Links: FrontPage Express
Overview
Create Absolute Links
Create Relative Links
Create Mailto Links
Create Internal Links
Create a Link to a New Page

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