Web Design : Hyperlinks

A hyperlink is a connection between two web pages. If you select a hyperlink on a page then you will be taken to the page that the hyperlink joins to. Hyperlinks can be represented as either text or a small image known as an icon.

A Text Hyperlink	An Icon Hyperlink

This diagram shows three web pages which are part of a site about the North West of England.

Clicking on the Manchester hyperlink on the main North West page would take you to the page about Manchester. Clicking on the cotton hyperlink would tke you to the page about cotton.

Most web browsers display links that you have visited in a different colour to links that you have not visited. Unvisited links are normally blue.

To create a hyperlink on a web page you normally type the text that you want the user to click on or import the image for the icon. Then you select the text or icon and identify which page the link goes to.

Sometimes when you click on a hyperlink it does not work because the page that it should link to does not exist. Most web design packages will automatically test the web site that you create to make sure that all of the links work.

GCSE ICT Companion 04 - (C) P Meakin 2004