CS 105 Lab 1 --- Fall 1998 -- Add a Link to Your Page

Go backward to Fill in the Body of Your Web Page
Go up to Part I: A Miniature Web Site
Go forward to Add a Secondary Page

Add a Link to Your Page

What makes the Web fun, of course, is links. Right now your page doesn't have any. A nice easy one to add is to take the reference to Williams College I suggested you include above and make it a link that will take a visitor to the college's web page.

To make this link:

Make sure you leave Navigator and get back to PageSpinner.
Drag the mouse to select the words "Williams College" or just "Williams" where you included them in your text.
Click on the "link" button in the PageSpinner tool bar. This button isn't too obvious. It is supposed to look like two links in a chain. It is just to the left of the button whose icon resembles an anchor.

After you click the button, a dialog box should appear.
Enter "http://www.williams.edu" where the dialog box asks for a URL.
Click the "Apply" button.
Save your work

Before proceeding, examine the HTML <A HREF...> tag inserted by PageSpinner to make sure it is consistent with your knowledge of HTML.

Now, view your page using Navigator as described above and try the link. Again, if anything isn't quite right, go back to PageSpinner and edit the text to correct the problem.