Creating Internet Links

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Linking your pages to other pages out on the Internet is just as simple as linking to pages on your own site. Some people think it's easier, since you don't have to keep track of your own pagesjust link to someone else's!

Linking to Web Pages

All hyperlinks use Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) to point to files. Most Web links have URLs that start with "http://," which tells the browser that the file being pointed to is on a Web server.

Linking to an E-mail Address

One of the best tools to use on your Web page is inserting e-mail links. This is great for letting people get in touch with you quickly.

Lately, though, such links are prey to automatic spambots that gather up such links and deluge the poor recipient with junk e-mail. There is a quick trick to use that will thwart such automated Web searchers and still let the people you want contact you.

NOTE

If you want to fend off junk e-mail address collectors, use an altered e-mail address that a person would understand, but a computer would not. For this address, you could use Webmaster AT proffitt DOT org instead of the actual address. This will mean a little extra work on the part of the Web surfer when they send the mail, but not too much.

Linking to Other Internet Services

Linking to e-mail addresses is proof that you can link to many different Internet serversnot just Web servers. Mail, FTP, Telnet all are available to most new browsers. Besides e-mail, a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server is the most useful server, as these are usually used to store files for download something all of us will do from time to time.

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