8. Linking it with Anchors

Relax... this lesson is just a quick and easy! In fact, it is just some information for you to read...

WHAT IS A URL?

The real power of the world wide web is its ability to create hypertext links to other related information. That other information may be another web page, a graphic (image), sounds, digital movies, animations, software programs, contents of a file server, a log-in session to a remote computer, a software archive, or and "ftp" site.

The World Wide Web uses an addressing and linking scheme known as URL's, or Uniform Resource Locators (sometimes also called "Universal Resource Locator"), to indicate the location of such items. These hypertext links, the ones that are usually underlined in blue normally, but here you will notice they are grey and when your mouse hovers over them a line will appear both above and below, as the menu on the left of this page and the sample links you click on have been. They are known as anchors (This should not be news to you as you followed several to get this far!).

In The Following lessons you will:

• Review the concepts of URL's.
• Find and copy some of your favourite URL's from your web browser to your HTML text document.
• Write an HTML hypertext anchor to link to another document in the same directory as the first document we have been working on.
• Write an HTML hypertext anchor to link to another document in a different directory as our first document.
• Write an HTML hypertext anchor to link to another web sites document on the Internet.
• Write an HTML hypertext anchor that links directly to another section of the same document you're viewing.
• Incorporate a graphic (image) that acts as a "hyperlink" to another document.

EEeeeeeeekkkk!!! That sounds like a lot of work to do! Well don't worry -- it is no more complex than what you have done up to this point.

COMING NEXT
Using URL's to connect documents together via hypertext links.

ANSWER
Did anyone work out how to link there images back to there web page after moving there images into the different folder named images?? No! ok well here is a code example:

   <img src="foldername/filename.gif" />

   also works for multiple directories like this

   <img src="foldername/foldername/foldername/filename.gif" />

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