Creating Hypertext Links

Hypertext links give you the ability to direct the visitor to documents within your Website or to any other location on the Web. Links made within the same site are called relative links, which can connect to files in any number of locations within the folder structure of a single site. There are a variety of ways to create such a link. The following exercise demonstrates these methods.

Remember that it is important to save new documents before you create any links. Saving a file tells Dreamweaver where your document is and enables it to determine the link paths. Dreamweaver needs to determine the location of the linked file in relation to the file in which you are putting the link. If you try to create a link without ...

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