Hypertext linking
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One of the really great things about HTML documents (ie Web pages) is that they are full of links (usually blue text) which allow you to jump from where you are to a completely different page, or even to a different web site.

Adding links is easy.  The tag is:
<A href    = ".....">Some text goes here</A>

What you place inbetween the speech marks is the place you want to jump to.  This can be another page on your site, or a completely different site.  The only thing you need to remember is that for the link to work, the tag has to be given an actual, real place to go.  This is usually in the form of a fully qualified URL (fancy abbreviation for a web page address)..  eg:

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Notice, there are 5 things to remember:

  1. The opening Anchor tag
  2. The HREF attribute
  3. The "destination" URL
  4. The text which the user must click on
  5. The closing Anchor tag.

If youŽd rather your users clicked on a graphic rather than on some text, you can acomplish this easily, like this:

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