Hyperlink Tags

How to create hyperlinks

In this fifth step you are going to learn How to place active links on your page... For example you will be able to create Crossed promotions between your different pages, or even a link towards your Website... All in the goal of creating interactivity between all your eBay sales...

To start we will once more go get an URL. Go to your EBay store page or on one of your sales, or simply any website. Copy the URL. We are going to learn how to link your pages to this URL...

The hyperlink tags are <a> and </a>. Everything between these tags will be a Hyperlink! however just like the <img> you must say where to go get the link. And this works with href=""


As usual the URL is to be placed between the ""
It should look like this :

<a href=" Your_URL_link"></a>


However the only thing visible on your page will be what's in between the tags. All you need to do is place something between the tags :

<a href="Your_URL_Tag">Link</a>

In your Web Browser you will only see "Link", and when you click on it you will be redirected to the URL you chose...

Note: You may place an image instead of text!

Open a link in a new page

How to keep your page when someone clicks on your hyperlink

One thing that is often practical is to open your link onto a new page, so that your potential bidder won't loose track of your page!

The function for this is : target="_blank"

This is how it's used:

<a href="http://www.design-ebay.com" target="_blank">Link</a>

This will create a link to this site on your page while keeping yours in a seperate window.