Adding hyperlinks to a web page

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Creating a hyperlink to another of your pages

Select the text you want to be a hyperlink. The text you select should exactly match the name of the page it will link to. This may mean rewriting the text a little. For example instead of typing 'Click here for more information', you should use 'See <name of page> for more information', and select <name of page> as the hyperlink
Click the Hyperlink icon
When the Create Hyperlink window appears, select the file you want to link to.

Create Hyperlink dialogue box

FrontPage lists first all the pages that you have open for editing. This can be a useful feature if you have open a page within a subfolder that you want to link to as it saves you having to open the subfolder in which it is stored. If you want to link to a page within a subfolder of your Web that isn't already open, just double-click on the subfolder from the list and then select the relevant page
Click OK

Open the browser you normally use to access the internet
Go to the web address you want to link to - eg www.lse.ac.uk
Right-click in the address/ location field and select Copy
Switch from the browser back to FrontPage
Select the text you want to be the hyperlink
Click the Hyperlink icon
When the Create Hyperlink window appears, delete all the text in the URL field ('URL' is another name for the address/ location). You can remove the 'http://' because when you copied the address from the browser, you included that part as well
Right-click and select Paste
Click OK - the text will now have become a hyperlink

Bookmark dialogue box

You'll see that the letter you selected has also become the name of the bookmark. On any page, bookmark names have to be unique but there is also another constraint you should be aware of
Our best practice advice is not to have spaces in file or folder names and this advice also applies to bookmark names. The reason is that some browsers don't understand bookmark names that contain spaces and clicking the link won't scroll the page
To avoid this problem, either remove all the spaces or separate the words using just hyphens - or underscores _
Click OK to create the bookmark. You'll see in FrontPage that the bookmarked text has a broken line beneath it; this doesn't show in the browser
At the top of the page, select the text that you want to become a link to a bookmark
Click the Hyperlink icon on the main toolbar
The Create Hyperlink window will appear
From the bookmark drop-down menu select the bookmark you have just created

Create Hyperlink dialogue box

Switch to the Reports view. Drag the Reports toolbar till it docks beneath the formatting drop-down menus if necessary
You should see the Site Summary report displayed - if not, select View > Reports > Site Summary
Click the Broken Hyperlinks report
- Note: if you rename a file from within FrontPage as our best practice guidance suggests, FrontPage will automatically fix any links that might be broken as a result
Unverified hyperlinks are links to pages outside of your FrontPage Web, either on the LSE Web server or other Internet addresses
To validate the unknown links click the Verify Hyperlinks icon (a link with a red tick underneath)
When the Verify Hyperlinks window appears, click the Start button
FrontPage will now visit each link and report back if there is a page at the address specified. If you look along the status bar at the bottom of the window you should the numbers of broken internal and broken external hyperlinks
Right-click the broken hyperlink and select Edit Page. The page will open in the Page view with the broken link already selected
Click the Hyperlink icon as before when creating a hyperlink
When the Edit Hyperlink icon appears, select the correct page if the link points to one of your web pages or paste the correct address from the browser if the link goes to an address beyond your pages
Click OK and save the page

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