LINKS TO OTHER DOCUMENTS ON THE WEB
So, now you have a whole set of pages on your local disk, all linked to each other in some places in your pages, however, you want to refer to page somewhere else on the internet-for example, to the first Caesars page by Dr. Ellis Knox at Boise State University for more information on the early roman emperors. You also can use the link tag to link those other pages on the internet, which I’ll call remote pages. Remote pages are contained somewhere on the web other than the system on which you’re currently working.
The HTML code you use to link pages on the web looks exactly the same as the code you use for links between local pages. You still use the <a> tag with an href attribute, and you include some text to serve as the link on your web page. Rather than a filename or a path in there, however, you use the URL of that page on the web, as Figure 5.5 shows.
FIGURE 5.5 link to remote files.
TASK: EXERCISE 5.2: LINKING YOUR CAESAR PAGES TO THE WEB
Go back to those two pages you linked together earlier today, the ones about the Caesars. The menu. Html file contains several links to other local pages that provide information about 12 roman emperors.
Now suppose that you want to add a link to the button of the menu file to point to the first Caesars page by Dr. Ellis Knox at Boise State University, whose URL is http:// history. Boise state. edu/westciv/Julio-cl/.
First, add the appropriate text for the link to your menu page, as follows:
<p><i> the first Caesars</i> page by Dr.Ellis Knox has more information on these emperors.</p>.
What if you don’t know the URL of the home page for the first Caesars page(or the page to which your want to link), but you do know how to get to it by following several links on several different people’s home pages? Not a problem. Use your browser to find the home page for the page to which you want to link. Figure 5.6 shows what the first Caesars page looks like in a browser.
FIGURE 5.6 the first Caesars page.
NOTE