Lesson 4

Chapter 6: Creating Links

  1. Chapter Introduction
  2. External Links
  3. Internal Links
  4. Opening Links in New Windows
  5. Linking to Specific Points on a Page
  6. Link Titles
  7. Using Images as Links
  8. Alternative Menu
  9. Linking to Other File Types

Chapter 6 Quiz

  1. True or False: An external link is a link that goes to a file on your web site that is in a different folder from the current folder.
  2. True or False: An internal link should always use an absolute path (the full address) to the file it’s linking to.
  3. In the code for a link, the “http” stands for what?
    1. HyperTerminal Transfer Path
    2. Hyper Transfer Target Protocol
    3. HyperText Transfer Protocol
    4. Hairy Tom-Tom Player
  4. URL stands for:
    1. Uniform Resource Locator
    2. Unit Reference Locator
    3. Uniform Reference Location
    4. United Resources Lexicon
  5. You have a page named “snerk.html” in a folder named “Other” that sits in your root directory. On snerk.html, you want to place a link back to your index page. Write the code.
  6. You have a thumbnail image linked to a larger image and you want it to open in a new window. The image is on a page named “alien.html” and in a folder named "images." The thumbnail image is named “ALIEN.JPG” and is in the same images folder as the HTML file. You want to leave the border at the default setting. Write the code.
  7. You are as fickle as can be, and decide to remove the border from the alien image. Add the code to the above tag to remove the border.
  8. You want to link to the top of your page from the bottom. What code would you place at:
    1. The top of the page?
    2. The bottom of the page?
  9. Add “World Events” as a title to the following link: <a href="world_events.html">World Events</a>
  10. You use graphic links on your site. Name one reason to also use text links.
  11. Name another reason to use text links with graphic links.
  12. When asked which block I live on, why did I forget where I live?
email your answers to: martin@msteinbeck.net

Chapter 6 Assignment

  1. Complete Chapter 6 Exercise Option 1 - page 105
    1. Upload your file(s) to your Tripod account.
    2. Email the URL of this file to: martin@msteinbeck.net

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