Now, boys and girls, in this section we will look at 'links'. Links are necessary to move about in your site, and to get to other sites from yours. They are really very simple to do - especially in a program such as Composer.
If you wanna be awkward and use the html to do it, use
the following tag:
<a href="http://www.linkname.com">linked text</a>
So there you have the ordinary text link. Not terribly interesting, but there you go. You can define the colours of linked text, if you want. Easy to do in Composer with the 'page preferences' dialogue box. You can even define the colour that a link becomes when it is 'active', that is, when the link is clicked.
Here is a way to get no underline on text links. This can look good where there are links within a paragraph of writing, such as on these pages where I introduce each script with a paragraph which often has links in it.
To specify in the HTML source exactly which words will have no underline, a style sheet can be inserted into the <head> section:
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#special { text-decoration:none; }
-->
</style>
Then to specify the words to which it is to be applied, use simply:
<a href="home.htm" id=special>word</a>
On the other hand, if you want all links on one page to be customised, use the style sheet,
style type="text/css">
<!--
A { /* style_options */ }
-->
</style>
But make sure to differentiate the link text from normal
text in some way.
The other kind of link you can use is the graphic link.
If you want this to look really good you're gonna have to face some html
coding, as to remove the link border (which is automatically added to linked
images in order to show that they are linked, much like the underline on
text), you need to add BORDER=0 to the html code in the image tag.
