Dr. Lodine is one of the founders of KinetECO and in his Bio that we just dropped
into this Web site, there's a mention of a place called Wind Powering America and
he wants to be sure that we provide a link out to that Web site.
So we are going to need to edit that particular article, and make sure that
that link is in place.
So, we're going to need to edit that article and make a link out to that Web site.
Inside of your Exercise Files, you'll find a document that I have provided for
you and there is the link, and it's this whole link right here.
Anytime to link out to an external Web site, you're always going to need to be
sure to put http:// in front of that link.
If you don't and you leave out the http://, you will make a link that goes
somewhere inside of the Web site, and it's a broken link, because of course you
don't have a page called windpoweringamerica.gov.
So, I've just gone ahead and highlighted this link here inside of this document,
and I am going to say Edit>Copies, so that I have this ready, when I am ready to go with it.
And now from my Control Panel in Joomla!
I'm going to go to my Article Manager, so, Content>Article Manager, and I am
going to go to the Executive's page, and here inside the Executive's page for
Dr. Lodine frequently collaborates with Wind Powering America and the words
Wind Powering America are the words that should link to the Wind Powering America Web site.
So, I am going to go ahead and highlight those words just click and drag to
highlight them, and then to make the link, all I need to do now is click on the Link icon.
It's the chain-link icon, in the second row here, and if I click on that,
I can now Paste my link into this window Ctrl + V or Cmd+V to paste in the
link and then comes the question of whether I should open this link in a
New window or the same window.
Some people will tell you that when you link to an external Web site, you should
always open in a New window, or New tab, so that, your Web site is still open and
that people can get back to it.
Other people feel like you should never open any windows in a New tab or
New window, you should always open them in the same tab.
So in other words, people are leaving your Web site, and they can't get back to
you except by hitting the back button many times.
My advice to you is whatever feels comfortable to you is fine, but treat all
external links on your Web site the same way.
So, if you decide that you are going to go open External links in a
New window, open them all in a New window, don't open some in the same window and
some in New Windows.
So, at KinetECO we have decided to open them all in New windows, so here under
Target, where it says, open in this window, or frame, we are going to switch
this to Open in a New Window, and then we just say Insert, and you'll notice
that the words Wind Powering America turn blue, and there's no underline.
This is the way that this happens to look here inside of Joomla!.
Blue with no underline is in fact a link.
If I try to click this by clicking on it right now, I'll roll my mouse over and
I am clicking my mouse as hard as I can, nothing happens.
Why, because we're here editing this article inside of Joomla!.
To test this link what I would actually have to do is put this on the front end
to the Web site, and we haven't gotten there yet, because we're still on the A in
the CAM, we did our categories we're still working on our articles.
We haven't gotten to linking them up to menus yet.
As soon as we do, we can test that link to make sure it works.
So, that's all we need to do, go ahead and say Save and Close and we've just put
an external link into our Webpage.