If you are not using predefined templates, the next easiest way is with the use of tables. This also includes the use of graphics within each of the table cells. The reason for doing this is that you can maintain specific sizing of the overall width and length of the web page. My first attempt at combining text and graphics in a web page was disastrous. The text ran off the page and it was necessary to use the horizontal scroll bar to view it. Within your software, you should have a site-view capability, which would allow you to view the actual size of the page in the number of pixels.

 Text Links

Text Links or Hyperlinks (sometimes called Hypertext) are one of the more important aspects of a web page because they create a link to either internal information or external information on a web site that is at another location. You have seen hypertext in use on most of the web pages that you have visited; it is the highlighted text within the HTML of the document you are viewing. In fact you have seen hyperlinks within this eBook directing you to other pages within this website, products, services or additional information on the Internet.

When you pass your cursor over hypertext in a web page, the cursor changes into a hand thus signifying that the text is active and will take you to another location. Proper use of hypertext within a web page makes that page more interesting to the viewer. Viewers like to click to find information, the more clicks, the more information to view. Web sites need to have interactivity, engaging the viewer into staying on the site and not leaving.

Creating Hypertext or a Hyperlink

Each software program has its own set of commands to hyperlink text or graphics. But for the most part it’s all about the same. Highlighting the text and then applying the actual link to that text. Each software program has specific instructions to create a link by using text or images. Refer to the software’s instructions for specific usage. The following is an example of how to create hypertext links. You can use the following example to create your own just insert your URL and text: 

To create a link to Home Business Information you would use the following html:

To create the above text link you would use the following html:

<a href="http://www.homebusinessresearch.com">Home Business Research</a>

There us a very handy software tool Note Tab Pro www.notetab.com that can create small snippets of html code for you. It’s a replacement for your systems NotePad and it is well worth it.

Hypertext should be used efficiently; too much on one page has a tendency to add clutter but more importantly take away from the content of your page. 

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