Ross Sheppard High School
Computer Programming 10
Student Learning Guide
Adding WWW Links to Your Home Page

1. In the provious lessons, you learned about creating and using basic HTML tags. In this project, you will learn how to link your page to other pages on the World Wide Web (WWW).
   
   
2. First of all, you need to know the anatomy of a URL. Although you have used them in the past, you may not know what all of the components of a URL refer to:
   
   
   
   
3. The protocol is the type of file you will be looking at; in this case, HTTP, or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (http:). Other protocols include File Transfer Protocol (ftp:), News (news:), and Mail (mailto:). For most of the work you will be doing, the http protocol will be used.
   
   
4. In order to link to another page on the WWW, you need to know its entire and exact URL. In the case of URLs, all characters are important, and they are case sensitive.
   
   
5. A link requires the ANCHOR tag which looks like:
   
   <A HREF>
   
   Note the space between the A and HREF. The ANCHOR tag also requires </A>.
   
   
6. A link on your home page consists of two parts: the URL, and a description of the site. The URL is placed in a special tag. Note the placement of the quotation marks and the = sign. For example:
   
   <A HREF="http://www.shep.net">
   
   
7. In addition, you need to include a description of the site, because the ANCHOR tag does not show up on the browser. The description of the web site above is:
   
   Ross Sheppard High School Home Page
   
   
8. At the end of the description, be sure to add the /A tag: </A>
   
   
9. Open your home page in word pad and add the link information. Your document should look like this:
   
   
   
   
10. View your home page in Windows Internet Explorer. When you pass the mouse over the link information it turns from a pointer into the pointing finger. Notice also the link is in blue, underlined text. This is how you know it is a link to another web page.
    
    
11. Clicking on the link will take you to that web page. Try this now.
    
    
12. Create three links to sites that you like. Center the link name on the page.
    
    

    When you link to a Web site, you must ensure that you follow acceptable use guidelines. You may NOT link to any site that: is offensive in any way is demeaning in any way to any race, ethic, religious, or gender group is related to models, super models, swimsuits has entertainment celeberties that are not fully dressed uses offensive or inappropriate language

    
    
    
13. Include a short annotation (brief description) below the name of the Web site you linked to.
    
    
14. Click here to see the marking guide for this project.
    
    
15. Save the project folder in your "Hand In" folder on your personal disk space so that this project can be graded.
    
    
16. This assignment is now complete. In the next lesson, you will learn how to add color to your web page.