... HTML & Webpages ... ... Recommend this series to a friend.
We don't have another page on this site (your site, that is), and this page is not long enough (not yet) to make a link to another part of this page, so we'll make a link to another website. Now guess whose site we'll link up to. That's right; mine. Only for learning purpose; you'll soon be able to change that link to any other site you want.
Notice that the "A" in <A HREF is closed at the end by the </A> tag.
Without that closing, the rest of the page would be underlined as one huge link.
It's happened to me; no shame ... knowing html, you just correct it.
Another example; to make a link to my index.html page, the tag would look like this:
<A HREF="http://geocities.datacellar.net/buddychai/index.html">Buddy's Website</A>
The actual look of the link would look like this:
Buddy's Website
Remember now, we're only doing this for practice.
To make a link to my Navigator page:
<A HREF="http://geocities.datacellar.net/buddychai/Navigator.html">Navigator</A>
The actual link on your page would look like this (adding "Buddy" to it):
Buddy's Navigator
Finally, to make a link to this "HTML & Webpages" section.
The link would look like this:
<A HREF="http://geocities.datacellar.net/buddychai/Html/00.html">HTML</A>
How and where you place this link is your business.
But the actual link on your page would look like this (adding "& Webpages" to it):
HTML & Webpages
That's about it; now you can make a link to any site on the www (world wide wait).
We know that links come in a zillion different forms (slight exaggeration). Not only a word can be a link but a picture can be a link (you can see that on my index page, the first link shown above). Links can slide in from the side of the screen when your mouse pointer hovers over that area, they can smile at you … even do your dishes, do your laundry, scrub your floors (they just don't do windows). Yes, we have a lot more work to do in this area; have patience.
Email is similar to links. There are a few ways to allow your visitors to get in touch with you, email being the most popular. Another way is with a guestbook. Each has its advantages and drawbacks (don't you find most choices in life that way?).
The advantage of a guestbook, which I find most popular among newcomers on the internet, is that it is open for the whole world to see what everyone else has to say. However, the drawback with guestbooks is that it might be real embarrassing what some screwball in Oshkosh wants to sound off with. Another drawback is that you might have to monitor the comments in that guestbook; there are lots of crazies who are only too happy to have a platform where they can say whatever.
The advantage of email is that the comments are private and immediate; you don't have to visit your file manager or site to see them. However, the drawback is that spammers, those who look for addresses where they can send their absurd spam (unwanted advertising). I won't list the variety of nonsense that can come through email (a serious problem on the internet).
So you pays your money and you takes your chance; here we go:
To allow people to send you email from your site, do the same thing but instead of the web address, you put your email address preceded by mailto: (with colon)
<A HREF="mailto:sperare@hotmail.com"> here goes stuff to be clicked </A>
That's my addy, I offer it as a template; you would substitute your own. Buddy has no need for additional email. I've been asked by some what "sperare" means. It's not my name; it is the Italian infinitive meaning "to hope".
Note that there are no spaces between the mailto: and the email address. And see where the quotation marks are in my example? Don't forget them. You should also know that just like links, the "clicker" can be either text of a graphic. What I have below is a graphic; the internet is loaded with every possible graphic sending email.
And this brings us to our next page, but what you would do is upload that graphic to your File Manager, put it wherever you want to keep your files, and insert the "img src" tag (see next page) where it says "here goes stuff to be clicked". You might double click the graphic below to see the email window that pops up.
Return to ... Navigator ... that's it.