Links
        The whole idea of the web revolves around the idea of documents linked to other documents. To make a link to another document, you must first know the URL (Universal Resource Locator). An example of a URL is http://www.yahoo.com/ or http://www.lycos.com/. It's just the server name with it's proper designations. It can also have a document name attached. Like http://www.w3c.org/TR/REC-html40/html40.txt
        To create a link, you must know the URL and you must make an anchor. An anchor is the <a> tag. To make a link to http://www.advanced.org/, and make the words "click here" be the link, you'd add this to your html document:

<a href="http:/www.advanced.org/">click here</a>

which will look like this:

click here

You must remember to use the </a> tag or all of the text that appears after the
<a href="http://www.advanced.org/"> tag will be a link to http://www.advanced.org/.
        What else can you do with anchors? You can set the name location of an anchor, and then link to it. Useful if you have a large document, and you want to link to a certain part. Now you create an anchor to the place where you want to jump to (it has to one of your documents) and you put a link to it somewhere else. So there's a link from an anchor to an anchor.

<a name="location1"></a>

if that was in the file "home.html" and you wanted to make a link to that particular spot on home.html, you'd make a link like this:

<a href="home.html#location1">go to location 1</a>

Need a demonstration? Do you see where I wrote "What else can you do with anchors?" I'll put this anchor there:

<a name="moreanchor"></a>

and since this document is links.html, I'll make this link to it:

<a href="links.html#moreanchor">more about anchors</a>

more about anchors
And when you click on that, you jumped to the place where I put the
<a name="moreanchor"></a> anchor. Got it?
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