Including links on your page

Including links on your page Recall that hypertext allows you to have references within your document that point to other documents of information. These hyperlinks are extremely useful when one is creating web pages. To add in such a link, you need the URL for the other page and a special tag set shown on the next slide. Using WindowsNT

Changing the background color To change the background color of your web page, you can add some information to a tagset we already know, namely, <body> <body bgcolor=“#FF00FF”> will turn the background to a pleasantly hideous shade of pink, for example. Using WindowsNT

Including pictures… To include a picture (A .GIF or .JPG file, for example), you need Yet Another Tag :) <img src=“filename.gif”> for a GIF file or <img src=“filename.jpg”> for a JPG file (Note, the filename.gif is just a relative URL, you could also use someone else’s pictures, via http://machine/~user/pic.gif ) Using WindowsNT

Enough! I want this to be easy! Web pages can be as easy or as difficult as you want them to be. Making an initial page is fairly easy, we’ve done it with a simple text editor in fact. But it is also a bit too primitive, so instead we turn to one of any number of HTML editors. Using WindowsNT

Using Netscape’s Editor • Bring up Netscape • Click on File • Choose New • Choose Document • Choose Blank (for now) (These steps may vary slightly from one version to the next, so play around w/ it) Using WindowsNT

Saving your web page Depending on what server software your system administrator has chosen to use, the proper name and location of your web page may vary. Check with your system administrator for the right selection for your local setup. Using WindowsNT

Sample pictures Some sample pictures for the beginning web page artiste may be found at: http://www.ms.uky.edu/~ma194/week12/pix/ Using WindowsNT

Including links on your page