Creating Links

Creating links using Netscape Gold is very easy. Links are the parts of an HTML document that you click on and they take you some where else. They usually are underlined text in a different color. The following 4 links all take you back to this page : 
Click here for some pictures of me in the buck
Here is some personal information you can use to black mail me.
Here is some info on blue balls
Click on the smile face for some happiness 
            All these link to this page.

You can change the colors of the text that is a link by marking the text and clicking on Properties up in the menu bar and selcect linkl.
The important thing is that you learn how to make a link go somewhere. To do this you mark the text or graphic that you want to convert into a link and the click on the little chain or link button on the menu bar. This will open a window that will let you write in eiter the location of the file , eg for this one it would be http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~ririzarr/Web-Tutorial/NGstuff/how2link.html
or the pathname which would be /home1/biostats/ririzarr/public_html/Web-Tutorial/NGstuff/how2link.html but you can write the pathname assuming you are already in the directory where the file for the refering page is. So in this case all you would have to write is how2link.html. If I wanted to link to the resources web page I would write ../resource.html. 

    It not a good idea to use full pathnames cause this means that if you leave and move your web-page to another server you will have to edit all your links.

Linking to your Personal Stuff Page

Most of you will probably have a link to a personal stuff page. To do this you would first have to create a file that for the Web Page. Say you are in your home directory /home1/biostats/ACCOUNTNAME, you can create a directory called Personal (mkdir Personal) then in that directory you can create a html file (for example you can copy example 1 and edit it as explained in the resource page) called personal.html. Then in your home page you simply mark the text that says "Here is some personal stuff" and click on the link button and in where it says "Enter link or local file ...." you write Personal/personal.html


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