Appendix F:

ADDING LINKS TO OTHER WEB PAGES WITH EXPLORER

Follow these instructions to add links to web pages and sites in the text boxes associated with works of art in your Art Collector sets on ArtsConnectEd. Access your collection in Netscape and select the text box where you will place the link. Make sure you give it a descriptive title. Now open a new browser window by clicking “New Window” in the File menu. You should have two browser windows open. Use the second browser window to find the web page that you want to link in the text box in Art Collector.

Once you have found the page you want, use your cursor to highlight the URL,
<http://www.artsconnected.org> for example, in the address toolbar at the top of your browser. URL stands for "Universal Resource Locator" and is the address of the page you have selected. Click on Copy in the Edit menu. Close the browser that displays the page you will link to and click your mouse on the browser that contains the text box where you want the link to appear in your Art Collection. When your cursor is in the text box, click on Paste in the Edit menu to paste the page’s URL into your text box.

Next you will write a little HTML script that tells your browser to display the URL you have just specified as a link. HTML stands for "Hyper Text Markup Language" and is the "language" used to create web pages. There are two ways to display the URL you have specified. To display the URL as a clickable link, place your cursor at the beginning of the URL (before the "http") and type a "<" by holding down the shift key and hitting the comma key. Next type "a href=" and place a quotation mark before the http portion of the URL. At the end of the string of HTML place another quotation mark and a ">" by holding down your shift key and hitting the period key. Your complete script should look like this:

<a href="http://www.acme.org">

Hit the "Use this Text" button and your URL script should become "hot." When you click on it your browser will bring up the page you specified.

You can hide the URL and create a link with directional words that will take you to the specified page like this: Go to ArtsConnectEd. Begin by creating the HTML script using the URL you want to link to exactly as described above. After > that ends your script type the words you want to appear as your link. After the words type Your final script should look like this:

<a href="http://www.acme.org">Click here to see ACME>

Hit the "Use this Text" button and you will see "hot" text you have specified after the URL and not the URL itself. Congratulations!