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English 121: Humanities Literature — Directions for Adding Links to Web Pages

For Use with Microsoft FrontPage

Adding hyperlinks to your web page is very easy! Just follow the steps below:

  1. Type the word or phrase you want to use as a link. For example:
    • Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  2. Press Enter (this step saves some hassles later)
  3. Highlight the word or phrase you just typed.
  4. Right click on the word and choose Hyperlink. (Alternatively, you can select Hyperlink from the Insert menu.)
  5. The Insert Hyperlink window should appear. At the top of this window, in the Text to display: box you should see the text you just typed. This is the text the person will click on to follow your link. We will add the actual link in the next step.
  6. At the bottom of the Insert Hyperlink window, type the full internet address in the Address: box. You must type the complete address including the http:// and every letter and symbol in the address must be accurate or the link will not work. Creating links is a very precise process. The address you type should look like similar to the example below:
    • http://www.iup.edu
  7. Click OK.
  8. Your word should now be underlined and it’s color should change to match one of your link colors (probably blue).
  9. On the File menu, select Save.

Now when people click on the link, they will automatically go to the web site address you entered.

Note: Your link won’t work until you view it on the Internet. Right now you are still just in your web page editor. To view your new link, save your file and then go to your web page (http://www.people.iup.edu/xxxx where xxxx is your IUP username).

Tip

You can save yourself some typing by copying link addresses from the Address bar in your web browser. This is an especially useful trick for handling those really long web addresses that are hard to type correctly:

  1. In Internet Explorer, click in the Address bar at the top of the screen and highlight the address.
  2. Right Click your mouse button and choose Copy.
  3. Now go back into Microsoft FrontPage and when you get to the step above for typing the web address, press the keys Ctrl V at the same time. This will paste in your selection.
  4. The full, long, complicated web address should now appear in the Address: area.