Linking to a Page in Your Site

For this procedure and the following two hyperlink procedures, you’ll link text that has been added in a gray sidebar. Therefore, in this first procedure, you’ll create the gray sidebar:

1.      Display the home page of your walkthrough Web site.

2.      Click Text Box on the Insert menu, and then draw a small box below the caption you formatted for the discovery clip art (Easy Web Design, Chapter 9, page xxx). Don’t worry about the size or placement of the text box—you’ll configure those settings using the Format Text Box dialog box in the upcoming steps.

3.      Click Text Box on the Format menu.

4.      In the Fill section on the Colors And Lines tab, click the Color down arrow, and then click Accent 4 (which is the gray color in the color scheme row on the color palette).

5.      On the Size tab, locate the Size And Rotate section, type 256 in the Height box, and then type 164 in the Width box. Leave the scale settings at 100%.

6.      On the Layout tab, set the Horizontal position to 576 From: Top Left Corner and the Vertical position to 496 From: Top Left Corner.

7.      On the Text Box tab, type 15 in the Left, Right, Top, and Bottom boxes. You should now have a gray box on your home page below the clip art item, as shown in the figure.

Creating a shaded sidebar box

8.      Click in the gray box, type The latest newsletter was sent home. Did you get it?, and then press ENTER.

9.      Type This month’s calendar has been updated. See our upcoming events and deadlines., and then press ENTER.

10.  Type Have a question? Send me a message. I am always happy to hear from you., and then press ENTER.

You are now ready to add links to your sidebar text. First you’ll link the word calendar in the second paragraph to the Calendar page in Ms. Koury’s site:

11.  Double-click the word calendar in the second paragraph, and then click Hyperlink on the Insert menu (or press Ctrl+K).

12.  In the Insert Hyperlink dialog box, click the Place In This Document button in the Link To area, and then click Calendar, as shown in the following figure.

Linking text to another page in the current Web publication

13.  Click OK, and save your Web publication. Your sidebar should now look like the one shown in the following figure.

Viewing a hyperlink in the shaded sidebar