External Links

Hyperlinks are the way we get around on the web, and these little rascals come in two flavors. There are internal links that link your own web pages and files together, and external links which link your pages to other web sites. This page covers External Links. If you wanted to learn how to use Internal Links, you're on the wrong page, kiddo.

To create external links to another web site you first need to know the other web sites URL (web site address). To find it, you can either look in the address box of your browser when you're on the site you want to link to; or right click on a blank spot on the page and choose Properties from the pop-up menu in Internet Explorer, or View Info in Netscape.

Suppose you wanted to create a link to this site (which would be a nice way to thank me for the time and effort I've gone to in order to educate and amuse you!), then since my web site address is:

http://www.htmlville.com

...to create the link you would place the following code to your page:

<a href="http://www.htmlville.com">HTMLville</a>

That would show up on your page like this: HTMLville. It would be an underlined hyperlink that's blue in color (unless code was used to remove the underline or change the color). Hey, here's an idea -- just copy and paste that code up there into your web page so others can find this site! :-)

That's all there is to it. By linking to quality sites you help your visitors explore the web. That's what it's all about, helping each other out.

Definitions...

URL: Uniform Resource Locator

a href: a is for Anchor, href for Hypertext Reference