How to create a direct hyperlink to a webpage item
Why reinvent the wheel when all the work has been done for you? HTML links are the way to go and a great time saving web tool. If you got along with the above information and have the interest, here is how to create these links.
What is it?
A hyperlink is a command that reacts to a mouse click to point (or takes) you to some other location to view a message. The location can be on as close as somewhere on the same page you are reading or as far as, anywhere in this world. Just click and point! (Soon to come, beyond this world.)
Purpose – to: send large amount of data without bogging down the e-mail system
Save time and labour on, typing & editing.
Get the information out quickly and accurately
Allow a quick message to all and the option to view more detail if clarification is needed.
No struggle or time lost is needed in creating an article or graphic learning curve skills required. Just take what we have already created and pass it on to your intended party.
Example
A: You might send a
message like, “meet me tonight at the Victoria &
Albert Pub.
If this Pub is known to the viewer no further action is needed. However, if the VA location is not known – the option to click on the link is there and the writer didn’t have to go into a long description of directions.
B: You want to send the boys a schedule for the Sunday team with map to the game location from our web
C: or you want to send a
new member some club information – let’s say the
Bucky bash event.
1 First you must have your e-mail language set to either – HTML or Rich Text mode. You can not create or receive hyperlinks in the plain text mode. If the there is no underlined blue writing in the sentence above, your settings need to be changed.
When you click on the blue writing above, all of the information comes directly from the website and not from the e-mail. This solves problems when sending large data to people with limited mail box capacity (free hotmail is one that comes to mind) and obviously, it saves you all that typing and creating (fast).
Procedure
To create a direct link to a specific piece of information to send to someone:
2 go to that exact page on our website –
3 **select the entire line in the address box (at top of page)
4 click “EDIT” on the menu – then click “COPY”
5 Then go back your e-mail and click on your page – then paste or insert - the line should appear on your page.
6 Next, hit ENTER on you keyboard (the cursor should be at the end of the new text when you do this). Most of the time when you hit enter it will automatically make the hyperlink (turns blue and underlines).
Tip: If it does not link (turn blue & is underlined) select the inserted line from your edit page – on the edit menu
· go to “Copy” then to
· “Insert” On the insert menu,
· click on hyperlink and paste the copy into the address box at the bottom of the displayed screen –
· Click “OK”.
Tip: You can have the item appear as “lets say the Bucky bash event” or as http://www.sonsofbeaches.net/Directions/Bucky-dir.htm.
To change the long address to text with meaning for the receiver:
1) Select the entire address & go to the
2) Insert menu and select hyperlink a dialog box will appear. With the “Address” line at the bottom and a “Text to display” at the top of the box.
3) Rewrite in “the text to display” box to anything you want to the link to display as text. This does not affect the link in any way.
** selecting means to use your mouse and make the whole complete line in black. Call me if this or anything else is not clear.
Wayne (Boots)