Vance Stevens: Internet Workshop: Steps to basic web pages

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<HTML>
	<HEAD>
		<TITLE>Vance's web page</TITLE>
	</HEAD>
	<BODY>
		<P> <A HREF="starthere.htm">Go back to the Table of Contents</A></P>

		<P>Hi, my name is Vance.<BR>
		<I>I'm a teacher.</I></P>
		<P><IMG SRC="vance.gif"></P>
	</BODY>
</HTML>

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Concept: Linking to other documents

Explanation:

<A HREF="..." > makes a hyperlink reference to another document.
The document being linked to goes in quote marks after the = sign.
The second part of the command tells the browser what to display on the page and underline so users can click on it to go to your link. This is everything between <A HREF="..." >here and here </a>
The document linked TO in this example is 'understood' to be in the same folder as the document linked FROM.
For your information: if you want to link to a document in a different folder you need to set a 'path'. For example if you place "../" before the filename it makes the browser look for the file to link to in the folder just above (and if you want to link into a folder parallel to this one, go back up ../ and specify the folder; e.g. "../another_folder/.." (and if this doesn't mean anything to you, don't worry about it, just keep all your documents for you project in the same folder).

What's coming: Now we'll see what to put in the HREF tag if you want it to link to a URL (and then we're done)

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