Adding links to your site can bring all your pages together and let you show people other sites you like. The setup for this tag is a bit more complex then what you’ve seen so far so I’ll try to explain it simply.

First the basic setup.

<A HREF=”The web page address”>Whatever text you want to appear as the link</A>

The A in the tag stands for anchor and the HREF stands for hypertext reference. Hypertext reference is a technical way of saying where do I find the web page in web space. After that comes the two " which go on each side of the address. I’ll now show you a real example for this page and what it looks like on a web page.

<A HREF=”http://www.craigmoore.bravehost.com/basic5.html”>A link to this page</A>

The part that says A link to this page is where you can type whatever you want to be displayed as the links text, I just chose that because it was right to the point.

It looks like this on a page.

A link to this page

As you can see only the text shows up on the page with a line under it to show it to be a link. In the next tutorial i'll show you how to make an image a link.

Next section - Images as Links