Linking to pages within your Web site

Any text element or graphic image on your page can be a hypertext link to another page in your Web site. When you set up text or an image to be a hypertext link, you choose the page you want to link to, and Claris Home Page automatically inserts the destination URL for that link.

You can also link parts of an image to other pages in your Web site by creating an image map. See Creating an image map.

Creating a link to a Web page

When you create a link, you select text or an image and specify a destination URL for it. By default, a link you create in a page takes you to the top of the page you're linking to. To make a link go to a different place in the page, you need to create an anchor. See Linking to an anchor in your page.

To create a link to a Web page in your site:

1. Select the text or image you want to make into a link.
   
2. Choose Link to File from the Insert menu or click the Link Editor button on the toolbar.
   
3. Select the name of the Web page you want to link to and click Open.
   
   The text becomes underlined and the color of the text or the image border changes to indicate the link.
   
   To remove the visible border from an image link, select the image, choose Object Editor from the View menu (Windows) or Show Object Editor from the Window menu (Macintosh), and type 0 in the Border text box.
   
   For information about changing the default color of links, see Changing the color of links.
   
4. Save your Web page.
   

To create another link to the same location or a recently used URL:

1. Select the new text or image you want to make into a link.
   
2. Choose Link Editor from the View menu (Windows) or Show Link Editor from the Window menu (Macintosh).
   
3. Choose the most recent URL listed at the top of the URL pop-up menu.
   
   You can also click the Browse Files button to locate a file.

   

For information about testing links, see Testing the links.

Setting a Base Document URL

You can specify a Base Document URL for the links on a page in your site. This feature can be used for complex Web sites that comprise many folders so that the links are associated with a single document or folder. If your Web site is a single folder, this feature is not necessary.

Note Some older browsers do not support the HTML element used to create the Base Document URL for a page.

Setting a Base Document URL for the links in a page is generally done before links are created for that page, because it affects all the links you create for that page.

To set the Base Document URL for a page in your site:

1. Choose Document Options form the Tools menu (Windows) or Document Options from the Edit menu (Macintosh).
   
2. Click the Parameters tab, if necessary
   
3. Type the complete pathname for the page in your site that will serve as the Base Document URL in the Base Document URL text box. For example:
   
   http://domain_name.com/folderB/subfolderB/index.htm
   
4. Click OK to apply your setting.