Web Class Notes 5- October 7, 2004

1) To create a link to another Web page type <a href=”page.html”>type label text</a>

2) To link to another website, for example the SJHS Portal Page type
<a href=”http://sjhs.cybermeme.net/”>SJHS Portal Page</a>

3) To link to the SJHS Alumni type <a href=”http://www.islands.vi/~sjhs/alumni.html”>SJHS Alumni</a>

4) Avoid long labels and using “Click here” as the it will be obvious that it is a link by its color and underline.

5) To add links within pages, you need to use anchors and links.

6) To add an anchor place the cursor on the part of the Web page that you wish to jump to. Then type <a name=”anchor name”>where anchor name is the text to use to identify the anchor. Keep it short, for example, in your online instructions, when you click on October 6, 2004 it goes to an anchor than is name 1006. The anchor should be placed above where you want to show. The anchor for October 6, 2004 would look like
<a name=”1006”>

7) To create the link to the anchor type <a href=”#anchor name”>type label text</a>. For the example above, type <a href=”#1006”>October 6, 2004</a>

8) You can create a link to a downloadable file such as the pdf file of the
“Catholic Islander” online. The October issue would look like
<a href=”http://www.catholicislander.com/cipd1004.pdf”>October, 2004, pdf download</a> When you click on that link, it will take a few minutes to download the pdf file. Afterwards, it will open in Adobe Acrobat PDF reader if it is installed on the computer.

9) To set the background color, within the body tags type bgcolor=”color”
Color could be a color name or code. For an image type background=”image.jpg” within the body tags. Use small, darkened images for the background and contrasting text.