How to Create a Link With Dreamweaver

Video Transcript

"Hi everyone, my name is Dave Casuto and I'm from San Francisco Computer Tutors. And in this exercise, we're going to show you the very simple process of how to create a link using Dreamweaver; basically by creating making a word, turning to a link or a hyper link. So when you click on it, it takes you to another page. Right. So you're going to want to make sure that you have your properties; kind of look at them by going into Windows and then properties and I see it there. Okay, that's what's first you want to do. Second thing is, I want to make this home be a link. So I'm going to click on home, first of all and I'm going to look at my properties panel, you see I'm going to have something that's called link. So I'm just going to call this index.html; that's for sure homepage that we're going to be and I'm going to click okay. I'm going to do the same thing for about us. Okay, I'm going to go to about.html; there is no notice when I'm putting in the link, I don't actually have to put in www or http or anything like that because it's actually in my root folder. Okay. And if it's not, you should put it in there. So actually I'm noticing now that mine is called about us; not just about; be very important to get that straight. Okay. So I'm going to hit enter and now you can see in real time, it's changing them into links. So I can do services.html, okay. And then let's do contacts.html. Now let's say for example you are working with something that is coming from the outside, okay. And that's something that, is another website that's outside of your root folder. Let's say for example, Story Street. I want to link this icon, right, I want to link this logo to an outside site. In that case, you would have to put in http://www and we'll do storystreet.net And then that's going to make this a link and it's also going to take you an external link. So that's going to be very important, know by an external link, you can just put in storystreet.net at this point. Okay. So let's go ahead and test our web browser. It's going to ask me if I want to save it and I'm going to say save, okay and now there's your all different links for me. So I can go to about us. Right? It takes me there, these pages, is not yet, put links on there yet. Alright. And then here's Story Street and that takes me right to Story Street, to the actual website. Okay. So you see how, how that's done. So pretty easy, pretty straight forward and go ahead and practice that. Okay. Well that concludes the tutorial on creating the links from Dreamweaver. Hope you enjoy that and my name is Dave Casuto from San Francisco Computer Tutors and I'm up on yelp.com if you like to look me up under San Francisco Computer Tutors and feel free to contact me anytime. Thanks."