Creating links
In Contribute, you can make text or images in your web pages act
as links. When a visitor to your site clicks a link -- whether
it is specified text or an image -- the browser takes the visitor
to another web page. Your text or image can link to:
- A current draft or a recently published page on your site.
- A new web page -- Contribute can create a new page at the same
time as the link to it is created.
- An existing page on your site or on another web site.
- An e-mail address (the visitor's browser will automatically
open their e-mail program and begin a new message with the e-mail
address
you specify in the link).
- An existing file on your computer, such as an Acrobat PDF or
Microsoft Word document.
Linking to a draft or recently published page
You can create a link on your page to a draft that you are currently
editing or to a recently published page on your website. Contribute
has a complete list of current drafts for you to link to, and also
stores a list of the last ten pages you published on your website.
Linking to a new page
You can create a link to a new web page on your website -- that
is, you can create a link to a new page that Contribute creates
at the same time that it creates the link. For example, if you
are working on a page about your college and need to create a link
to a page about a new course offered, but the page doesn’t
exist yet, Contribute enables you to create the new page and link
to it before you add content to the page.
Linking to a page on your website or on another website
You can create a link to another page on your website or on another
website. Use this option to link to any web page that is not a
draft or recently published page.
Editing link properties
You can edit various link properties by right-clicking on the
link and selecting Link Properties from the pop-up menu. This dialogue
box allows you to change the link address, specify a link target
(such as opening a link in a new window), and change an e-mail
address for an e-mail link.
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