The quickest way to learn how to make links is to copy some samples into your site.

Links are clickable portions of text which allow navigation to a different page. Links can be made to pages within in your own site or to pages anywhere on the World Wide Web. Links are usually presented in a different color from the surrounding text and often change color once they have been clicked. Link colors for your pages are established using the Page Colors option.

A link consists of two parts: the location of the page to which the link points and the text which is displayed on the page containing the link. The simplest way to create a link is to simply specify the location as part of any text field. Email addresses and Web addresses will automatically be converted into links if the site option "Create Links Automatically" is set on. We also allows links to be created by specifying a special sequence of characters as part of a field's text. The sequence is ~location,text~. The text portion if optional. If omitted, the location also serves as the text. If you need to use the ~ (tilde) character in your text precede it with a \ (backslash) character. If location matches an existing page in your site we will generate the full location value when your pages are presented. Links can also be created with images. You can do this on your pages using images from the Image List. The sequence for specifing Image A would be ~location,^a~.

Some of the samples below show how to link to pages within your own site. These samples use the page name Your Page as the location. Your Page stands for the name of a page in your site. Advanced users can include a named anchor after the page name (see example below).

Several types of links are possible. These are "http:" (Web pages), "ftp:" (File Transfers), and "mailto:" (EMail). The samples below show how to specify link types.
Note: Do not specify the "http:" type when creating links to pages within your own site.

The ~ (tilde) encoding scheme is also used to create "shorthand links". A shorthand link expands to a specific special link. For instance, a shopping cart or a guestbook form. See the Shorthand Links topic for more information.

Samples:

Samples provide a quick guide guide to making links. Copy the Link Text into your site and see what happens. Note in the samples below, Your Page stands for the name of a page in your site.

Link Text You Enter	Appearance on Your Page
http://maxpages.com	http://maxpages.com
www.maxpages.com	www.maxpages.com
user@yourserver.com	user@yourserver.com
ftp://yourserver.com/user/file.zip	ftp://yourserver.com/user/file.zip
~http://aol.com,Visit AOL~	Visit AOL
~http://maxpages.com~	http://maxpages.com
~Your Page~	Your Page
~Your Page,See my other page~	See my other page
~Your Page#samples,See samples below~	See samples below
~Your Page,^J~
~http://yourserver.com/\~user/info.html~	http://yourserver.com/~user/info.html
~mailto:user@yourserver.com,Send me mail~	Send me mail
~mailto:user@yourserver.com,^X~
~ftp://yourserver.com/user/file.zip,Get the file~	Get the file

See also Shorthand Links.