CHAPTER 14 WEB PUBLISHING Canvas is an ideal tool for creating graphics and layouts for the World Wide Web. This chapter explores how to prepare graphics and documents for publishing on the Web or a company intranet. It includes information on hyperlinks, animations, and Web-page but- tons. About hyperlinks and hypertext After you create illustrations and text for a Web page in Canvas, you can use the URL Attachment palette to link items in the layout to other Web pages and resources on the Internet. Visible objects, such as buttons or graphics, that lead to other Web pages are called hyperlinks or simply links. Text that contains a hyperlink is called hypertext. Someone viewing your Web page clicks a hyperlink to jump to another Web page located on your site or anywhere on the Internet. The Web browser searches the Internet for the address associated with the hyperlink. An internet address is referred to as a URL, an abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator. You can make hyperlinks by assigning URLs to any object, including the following: •   vector objects, such as small illustrations •   image objects, including photos and painted images •   text selections and entire text objects •   buttons and animations Hypertext Hyperlinked object Hyperlinked image Examples of hyperlinks Tip To create invisible “hotspots,” you can assign URLs to objects that don’t have visible strokes or fill inks. This lets you desig- nate any area of a Web page as a hyperlink.
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