Creating Links From Within Your Website

Did you know that you can create a link most anywhere on a given page in your website which will pull up another site? By this I mean from within the body of a page…not from a navigation button that you create on the side nav bar. You can link text or graphics to any http: address merely by using the link option found in your html editor [Note: Now updated and called the Page Layout Tool].

If you want to link a text word or phrase to another website, just highlight the word or phrase, then select the (chain) link tool found in your html editor’s toolbar. It provides a field to paste or type in the http address that you want to link to. Do so, and then save your work and you should then have a link to an external web site.

You can do the same thing with a graphic you have placed on your page (of course, you need to upload it first…and it could be a logo to the site you are going to link to). So, first place the graphic using the image placing tool found in your html editor’s tool bar. Then click on the image and select your link tool; paste or type the http address that you want to link to into the provided field and you have a link from your graphic to another website.

A spin off from the above is as follows: Let’s say you are creating a new page with whatever content and using the html editor. As you develop your script, you realize that it might be nice to have a few of the words here or there link to another article or page in your site. Easy to do! Just pull up the page in your site that you want to link to in your browser…copy the link out of the address window in the top of your browser…go back to the page you are developing…highlight the word(s) you want to link from…select the link tool in your html editor and paste in the link. Poof! You now have a link to another area of your site.

Any of the above means of linking can be beneficial depending upon the intended purpose of your link.