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When visitors comes to your Web site, ideally you want to keep them there as long as possible, and keep them interested in what you have to present so they'll keep coming back. Part of what makes a site successful is good site navigation.
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"Good" site navigation is purely subjective , but there are some basic characteristics that all well-designed sites share. Links should be clear, navigational tools should be prominent, and you should always have a link back to the site's home page so that visitors can start over again if they want to.
Many of your hyperlinks are going to be to pages within your Web site. Instead of using full Internet addresses, these hyperlinks just use filenames and directory paths to point to the pages on your site.
Often, you may discover that you want to link to a page on your Web site that you haven't actually made yet. You may have forgotten some really interesting hobby you wanted to share with the rest of the planet.
In these situations, you could create a new Web page and then go back and hyperlink it. Or you could use a timesaving FrontPage feature to create a new Web page as you create the hyperlink.
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Use the Ctrl+K keyboard shortcut to open the Insert Hyperlink dialog box.
While you should keep your Web pages relatively short so that the user doesn't have to scroll forever, there will be times when the length of your pages' content will be quite long. A good way to make things more convenient is to add bookmarks to your longer pages. Then a user will not only be linked to that page, but she will also be brought directly to a certain point in the text!
Before you can link to bookmarked pages, first you need to make a bookmark in the destination file.
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Use the Ctrl+G keyboard shortcut to open the Bookmark dialog box.
When you know of a bookmark or bookmarks on a Web page, you can link to them quite easily.
The interesting thing about hyperlinks is that they don't care what kind of file you link to. The browser following the hyperlink will blindly try to open any hyperlinked file. The only obstacle is whether that browser has the capability to view such files.
With this in mind, you should be aware of which browsers are visiting your site. Pointing to a Word file won't be a problem for visiting Windows, Mac, or Linux users, although some other operating systems might balk at opening such a specialized file.
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