
Linking pages within the Website
If you had set up this Website
selling your artwork and wanted to encourage visitors to buy your pictures,
you could link the Picture Gallery page to the Prices page.
Here is a simple way to do this:
- Make sure you have created, or at
least started and named, the pages you want to link to within your
Website. Open any that will be involved in the link.
- On the chosen page, choose the text
or image that visitors will click (typing new text if necessary) and
select it with your mouse.
- Click the Insert Hyperlink
button on the toolbar.

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When the dialog box opens,
click the Open Pages tab where you should see the names of all your open
pages. Select the target page you want to link to and click OK.
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Back on your page, the
selected, clickable text should now look different – blue and underlined,
although a clickable image would not appear to have changed. Make sure
you now save the changes to update the file.
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Test the link locally by
holding Ctrl down as you click with your mouse. The linked page should
then open.
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It is better to test links in
your browser e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape. Open your browser but
stay offline and display the web page via the File – Open menu.
Click Browse to locate the web page in the normal way, select it and click
OK. When the page appears, click the underlined text and it should open
the target page to which it has been linked. You will also see that the
mouse now displays a hand when hovered over the clickable text.
- The web page you were working on in
FrontPage Express will still be open, minimised on your taskbar, so click
its name to return to your web authoring program.
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Repeat the linking process for
any text or pictures you want to be able to click to open another of your
Website pages. It is always a good idea, for example, to add a link back
to the home page from any page deeper into the site that visitors will
have visited.
E-Mail Links
If you want visitors to e-mail
you for information or to buy a picture, you will want to add an e-mail link
to a Contacts page. Do this as follows:
1. Type the
text visitors will click e.g. your name, full e-mail address or text such as
Click Here to contact me etc., select this entry and then click the
Insert Hyperlink button.
2. This
time, click the World Wide Web tab and select mailto from the
drop-down list in the Hyperlink type box. Replace the entry in the URL box
with your full e-mail address, but make sure you leave the opening
mailto: that has appeared automatically. This tells the browser the type
of link you have inserted.
3. When you
test the link in your browser, as long as your computer is set up with an
e-mail program such as Outlook Express you will open a new message window
with your address already inserted in the To: box.
4. Note: whenever
you want to test links or check your page in the browser, you MUST save the
changes in FrontPage Express first, and then click the Refresh button in the
browser window to make sure you load the latest version of the page.
Links to pages on the World Wide Web
Common hyperlinks embedded in web pages are those to other Websites on the
World Wide Web.
1.
To add a link e.g. to the Laterlife website, type and select the
text to be clicked, click the Insert Hyperlink button and then select
http: from the drop-down list.
2. Type
the rest of the URL in the box after the http:// that will be visible at the
beginning of the entry and then click OK. (You may find that the default
entry starts something like
http:///C:/Documents and Settings..... so make sure you remove
any extra forward slashes from the address.)

3. It is
vital that you test World Wide Web links carefully as addresses can change
very quickly – especially if you find them in old books or magazines. Do
this by opening the page in your browser but then connecting to the
Internet. Now when you click the linked text, the actual Website you
targeted should appear.
Tables
Some web pages you come across may have more impact or be easier to read
because the contents are arranged in columns. To do this yourself, insert
your text and images into a table. Without gridlines showing, you can
present a very neat arrangement of columns and rows.
1. Click
the Insert Table toolbar button and decide on the number of columns or rows
you want. Drag your mouse across the squares and let go to add the table to
your page.

2. Type
some text into the first square (known as a cell) and then click in the next
cell and insert more text. Continue across the page until all the contents
have been added.
3. Adding
pictures can be tricky if they are too large when they arrive. Right-click
the picture, select Image Properties and on the Appearance tab select a size
around 200 in Pixels. You will then be able to see them clearly and
can drag the borders of a selected picture out with the mouse to amend the
size by eye.

4. To
remove unwanted cells, select them and press the Delete key. To add a new
row at the bottom of the table, click in the last cell and press the tab key
(to the left of the Q). To add columns or rows elsewhere, open the Table
menu and select Insert – Rows or Columns.
5. Remove
gridlines by making sure the Border checkbox is set at 0 after you
right-click and select Table Properties. In this window, you can also
change the minimum width to set the size of the table on the page, and any
padding or spacing options to increase the area of space round cell
entries. If you keep or increase the border, you can change its colour, so
experiment to get the result you want. One trick is to click Apply to see
the effect as you make a number of changes, but only click OK when you are
satisfied with the final result.

In the final column on web
pages next month, I will show you how you can find out the settings other
web page creators have used so that you can borrow some of their best ideas,
and also how to publish your Website on the World Wide Web.