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Navigation: hypertext links (screen 10 of 17)
Hypertext links
Most people will arrive at your website via a hypertext link at another site.
If you click on a hypertext link you will be transferred to the screen that the link refers to. What you see on your browser screen will be underlined text, usually in a different colour to the normal body text. A hypertext link can either be a word or words about the subject - for example:
- Go to our Internet Development Guides(1).
Or you can make the URL itself the link.
- Go to our Internet Development Guides at http://culture.gov.au/resources/guides/index.htm(2).
You can use whatever approach suits you best.
Generally users will expect to find links to other websites from yours. Generally they expect these links to be to related sites.
There are several ways you can provide these links on your site:
- Incorporate them into the text as a hypertext link if this is appropriate.
- Create a separate list of links at the bottom, top, or to one side of the screen.
- Create a separate links screen.
Don't hesitate to annotate your links if you think this is appropriate.
To many users, your site gains enormously in value if you can incorporate useful links to other sites, provided they are relevant. But 'useful' is the key word. There is so much information on the Web that links carefully selected by you for their relevance and excellent content are of real value to users.
When annotating links you should keep in mind the normal rules of propriety, and ensure that you have not defamed or denigrated that link.
Think carefully, too, about where you place links out of your site. After all you want people to spend some time in your site before they skip off somewhere else!
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References
- Internet Development Guides http://culture.gov.au/resources/guides/index.htm
- Internet Development Guides http://culture.gov.au/resources/guides/index.htm
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