Adding a Hyperlink Within Your Web Site

If we create a new Web page and save it in the same directory with the Web page you created in Hour 2, “Creating a Basic Web Page with Text,” we will have the makings of a rudimentary Web site. We can use the two pages to practice linking using document relative paths.

It's generally bad form to explicitly reference a hyperlink by saying, “Click here to see our statistics.” It's better to incorporate a hyperlink into a natural sentence, such as, “The 1999 statistics show that sales increased by 32%.” Ideally, hyperlinks are meant to seamlessly blend into the text of your documents.

Create a new page that ...

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