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A CHAIN IS AS STRONG AS IT'S WEAKEST LINK

Anyone know how many links there are on the web? I don't, but its much bigger than 256*256*256, that's for sure. Links are what make the Internet what it is, the ability for one person to guide another to an area of the Internet (i.e. a page or website) that they otherwise wouldn't have been able to find.

One simple tag team called the anchor tag <A> </A> make links able to happen. They use a special equation whose name is HREF.

The structure is HREF="http://address of website "

A completed link looks like this :

<a href="http://address of website">NAME OF WEBSITE<a>

It is very easy for HTML to get nausea when it comes to links. They are very easy to make mistakes with. Here are some pointers to keep you and HTML happy.

  1. Make sure there is a single space between a and href
  2. There is no space between href, the ='s sign, and the quotes.
  3. Make sure http://address is in quotes
  4. Do not leave any space between the end of the address and the closing quote.
  5. Put the name of the website between the two tags

This may all seem very childish, but trust me, been there, done that! Fixing links is a pain!

Other notes:

  1. Links change. Check your links every month or so to make sure they are still working. Some web – mistresses put their email address on the webpage with a note to email them if the surfer finds a link that doesn't work.
  2. Some websites won't let you link to internal pages or members only pages. If this happens, try using http://mainaddress/index.html as the address or just http://mainaddress and put a note on your webpage explaining the coolness of the page your surfers should try and find once at your suggested link.

Here is an example of our plain Jane website with a link to the Cybermoms website. I also added a paragraph tag (<P>) so that there is a line separating "the good stuff goes here" and the Cybermoms link.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>MY VERY BASIC PLAIN JANE BORING WEBPAGE</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#ff0000" alink="#00ff00">
the good stuff goes here
<P>
<a href="http://cybermoms.cyberbeach.net">Cybermoms</a>
</BODY>
</HTML>

And, here is what the page looks like on the Internet:

Screen shot of webpage with link to Cybermoms