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Using Hyperlinks

Now that we've added most of the content to the home page, we need to create 

links so users can navigate through the Web site. Web pages utilize several 

different types of 

links

 to connect images, Web pages, and other resources. 

Hypertext links

 connect text in one Web page to a different point in the same 

Web page or another Web page. We'll create two different types of hypertext 

links.

Creating an Absolute Link

We want to create an 

absolute link

, which requires the complete URL, includ 

ing the domain name, to reference the target Web page. Absolute links are 

used to link to pages outside your own Web account. We'll link the text 

FEMA to the FEMA Web site, which offers information on the national orga 

nization. 

1.

To select the text to link, in the last cell of the second column,

  across FEMA

2.

To access the Hyperlink options, on the Menu bar,

  Insert,   Hyperlink...

You see the 

Insert Hyperlink

 dialog box:

There are several options for creating hyperlinks, including creating a link 

to a place in the current document and creating a new document to link to. 

Later in this workshop, we'll create links within a document, but for now, 

we want to link to an existing Web page.

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