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URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. A URL, basically, is a way to tell your web browser (or other program) where to look for something. If you wanted to make a hypertext link to a page, you would need its URL.
For Example: the URL for TRIO is http://www.usd.edu/trio
To make the actual link to this page, you would see something like this:
TRIO,
which is accomplished with the following HTML code.
<a Href="http://www.usd.edu/trio">TRIO</a>These are the color attributes you can have within the BODY tag itself to differentiate between the following
| BGCOLOR | Indicates the background color |
| TEXT | Color of displayed text |
| LINK | Color of an hyperlink within the page |
| VLINK | Color of visited hyperlink |
| ALINK | Color of hyperlink when clicked on or select |
| Example of setting an
anchor | defines a target location within a current document |
| Example Anchor: top of
page | takes you to top of current page |
| Example Anchor: Example above | takes you to defining anchors above |
| Example Index: Start | takes you to the beginning of this tutorial |
| WWW example:USD Home | takes you to USD's home page |
| Mail example:Send me a comment | invokes the e-mail portion of your browser |
| Gopher example:Gopher at USD | visits USD's gopher site |
| Example telnet: Telnet to USD | visits a telnet site - requires telnet client software |
| Example news group: puzzles newsgroup | visits a newsgroup |
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