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Here is a very important section. If U don’t know about a link tag. Your page will stand A L O N E. Link Tag will allowed U to move to other page whatever your other page or foreigner’s page, there is internal linked and external linked, mean U can located a link within same page so your reader can move rapidly to the place U lead ‘em to. Link tag is very simple but U can adapt it any way U want including ImageMap, the funniest stuff lately. Well, stop talking and let’s start…
A link tag is one of 2 way tag. As usual U can place any text and image between open tag and close tag but it will meaningless if U type a wrong path for it!!! Read it carefully!!! A link tag is called an Anchor Tag, so A = Anchor, HREF = Hypertext REFerence. Straightly, it means an URL of other document that U want to go. Let’s see an example ( again … because I think it’s the most easiest way to understand )
BACK 2 HOME This tag will create a link toHOME.Mention a different color of words, HOME !!! Because I set a link color to make different from normal text ( almost every page do this, too ) Another spot is home.html is in a same directory of this page!!!! A path still very important!!! If U want to link your page to another site U must know there URL, U can indicate that form URL box quite high zone at your browser window, easiest way is go to that page and copy their URL then paste to your link tag. For example I want to link to my Chula Page …
MY CHULA PAGE
The results will be thisMY CHULA PAGEif U click at a text, it will lead U to my ChulaLongkorn Page. Well, Image is very useful for making a link. It is looking better ( on browser ) than a plain text but remember one thing, mention that all page in the WWW always have a plain text link in their page? That’s because some place it a World still use plain text access such as UNIX, Lynx So Picture will mean nothing to them. The safest way is create both Image link and text link for every single human. Well I will give a simple image link example for U.
If U click at an image it will lead U to the same place as an example above, mention an tag and image there is a border of an image which is the same color as text that linked, The border will indicated that which image is a link image. It might make people much easier to find out but as I said before that I hate a border line so U can take it out by border=0 (more information at Format Section ) and U can even align it also.
There is slightly different about Anchor with "#" symbol so I separate ‘em to 2 parts. This one works with a name tag. They are used for link within a same document, for example ( it’s real example ) I put an ‘a name’ at the head of this section LINK SECTION, if U click at a word it will lead U to the top of this page. How to do this? Here is it.
- Create ‘a name’ at the place U want any other link to go… for this example is LINK SECTION , so the source code is
LINK SECTION
The result will no different from other text because it just an anchor, U have to place this at the place U want other link to go to… so If I want the link back to the top of a page, I have to found some text or image which located very top or near to the place I want that link to go for this example an anchor have placed at top of page already … then next step..
- Create a link anywhere to lead U back to exactly place.
to top so the result will look like other link text but it will lead U just top of page. Well, here is a result to top
- Don’t forget that U can place an Image instead of plain text to make your link much attractive.
Here is another Link Tag, Mailto is a link for other to send U a mail directly to your mailbox. When people click at a mailto link the browser will pop-up a new message box ( for sending a message trough a browser mail system ) This might cause a problem when user didn’t set a correct config for there browser mail, the other way out of this is only CGI-Script that allowed U to create a form and let other submit it to your mailbox, for Geocities Homestead, they provide a mail back Cgi-Script for Free (lucky, better than nothing). There is no Cgi Writing part in this site, it took a mount of time and, whatever I can write it or not, no cgi allow in Geocities so I didn’t read it out yet anyway. Well before we out of fucus, Mailto have a simple link form just a couple of text more. Let’s see an example…Well Link is not much things to know but it really important for managing a webpage. I have to decide first that which style of link U prefers, there are many way to link all page up, direct link , web link,… don’t forget to write it down before U start your own page. It will help a lot later on, don’t forget to create a link back to a very center page because sometime people that is not a owner of a page will not know exactly where they are and they want something to lead them out of a mess. A couple of text won’t bother your contain isn’t it?
Mail to Me
The result will be like this Mail to Me so if U click at a link it will pop-up a mail sheet. As usual U can put an image instead of plain text.