All decent (http://www.macresource.co.uk/courses/dreamwvr1.htm) Dreamweaver training courses and online tutorials will show you how to create hyperlinks. HTML hyperlinks provide an essential interactivity allowing users to move from one place to another within a web site. Links can be attached to both text and images. To attach a link to text

1. Highlight the text.

2. Click the Browse icon next the Link box in the Property Inspector.

3. Find the file to which you want to link and double-click on it.

By default, the appearance of the link text will change to blue (with underline) or to the link colour specified with the command Modify – Page Properties. CSS styles can also be used to change the appearance of links and to exploit Internet Explorer’s Hover feature whereby the link colour can be changed when the mouse rolls over it. (See the section on using CSS styles in Unit 5: working with text.)

The folder and point to file icons are especially useful ways of creating links since they minimise the risk of errors. However, if the file to which you want to create the link has not yet been be saved to disk, these methods cannot be used. To create a link manually:-

1. Highlight the text.

2. Type a URL in the Link box in the Property Inspector.

3. Press the Enter key on your keyboard.

Dreamweaver’s handy point-to-file icon provides another useful way of defining a link. It is located next to the Link box in the Property Inspector (to the left of the folder icon).

1. Resize and reposition the Files and Document windows as necessary until they are both visible next to each other.

2. Select your text.

3. Drag the point to file icon into the Files panel directly onto the file to which you want to link.

To use an image file as a link

1. Select the image by clicking on it once.

2. Click on the Browse icon next the Link box in the Property Inspector.

3. Find the file to which you want to link and then double-click on it.

Needless to say, the point-to-file and manual link creation techniques can also be used with images. Images which have been hyperlinked can normally be distinguished from other images by a border which appears around them in a colour which matches the link colour for that page. Dreamweaver suppresses this border by setting the border attribute of the IMG element to zero. If, for any reason, you wish to have a border around a linked graphic, in the Property inspector, change the zero to one or more pixels.

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