Hour 3. Linking to Other Web Pages

Hour 3. Linking to Other Web Pages

In the previous two hours you learned how to use HTML tags to create a web page with some text on it. However, at this point the web page is an island unto itself, with no connection to anything else. To make it a "real" web page, you need to connect it to the rest of the World Wide Webor at least to your own personal or corporate web of pages.

This hour shows you how to create hypertext links. You'll learn how to create links that go to another part of the same page in Hour 6, "Creating Text Links."

Hypertext links are those words that take you from one web page to another when you click them with your mouse.

Although the same HTML tag you study in this hour is also used to make graphical images into clickable links, graphical links aren't explicitly discussed here. You'll find out about those in Hour 8, "Putting Graphics on a Web Page." For now you'll focus your energy on linking to other pages via words, not graphics.