Customize your Links

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Blue text and blue hypertext links. Hmm... we'd better do something about the color of our text links - otherwise people won't know where to click.


Right. We wouldn't want our visitors clicking all over the page looking for links. I can't imagine anything more frustrating. Hey, why don't we hit another kind of "hotspot" later? You know, the type with lots of dancing and rave music.

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Concentrate, Pixel. We've got to finish this project first.


Phooey! All work and no play makes Pixel a dull spacekid.



Changing hyperlink colors
Hyperlink text (hypertext) is colored differently than the rest of the text so your visitors can identify it easily. Hypertext comes in three standard colors: blue, red and purple.

Blue hypertext tells your visitor: "Here is a link you have not yet followed." Purple text usually indicates a visited link. It tells your visitor: "Here is a link you have already followed." Red text is usually used for an active link. This color tells your visitor: "Here is a link that you are following right now."

You can change these standard colors to contrast or blend in with the other colors in your web site.

To change hyperlink colors:

    1. Click the Normal tab in FrontPage Editor.

    2. Click the File menu and select Page Properties.

    3. Click the Background tab on the Page Properties dialog box.

    Select the background tab

    4. Select the three different hypertext colors from the drop-down boxes and click OK in the Page Properties dialog box

    Lots of colors to use!


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Yikes! Jefferson Elementary and Jackson High have changed their school URLs. We'll have to edit our links to their student pages.



Editing hyperlinks
You may need to edit your hyperlinks for a number of reasons. Maybe one of your external web site links has a new URL. Maybe you have changed your e-mail address and need to update your e-mail hyperlink. Maybe you have rearranged your web site content or made some other change that will be reflected in your site.

To change or delete the URL of a text hyperlink:

    1. Click the Normal tab in FrontPage Editor.

    2. Click the hyperlink you want to change, then click the Create or Edit Hyperlink button.

    The Create or Edit Hyperlink button

    3. To change the hyperlink target, click on a different file name. If you want to change the e-mail target or create a new page, click on the appropriate button.

    The e-mail link button

    4. To delete the hyperlink target, delete the URL in the Edit Hyperlink dialog box by pressing the Delete key, then click OK.

    No more URL!

To change or delete the URL of a graphic hyperlink:

    1. Click the Normal tab in FrontPage Editor.

    2. Select the graphic by clicking on it, then click the Create or Edit Hyperlink button.

    3. To change the hyperlink target, click on a different file name. If you want to create a new page or change the e-mail target, click on the appropriate button.

    Changing your hyperlink target

    4. To delete the hyperlink target, delete the URL in the Edit Hyperlink dialog box by pressing the Delete key, then click OK.


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