Some web page owners seem to have forgotten about links, or just never learned how to do them properly. I often see badly designed pages that have far too much content all stuffed onto one page.
It is important to keep the size of pages down and one of the best ways to do this is to create more pages with a smaller amount of content on each page. You then link these pages together using, well, links.
Although I began to discuss links last month I will start from scratch for those of you reading only this article.
The best way to teach is with examples and I will use that method for this article.
To explain links I will imagine that I am setting up a small web site for a local band. I have consulted with the band and they can only afford a very small site. They know they want to have some information about themselves on the site, a list of upcoming gigs, a picture gallery and a section with links to other music sites on the web.
One way to go about designing this site would be to create one html document containing all this information. After all web pages can be as long as you want so why waste time making more than one page? The answer is simple. You want a nice site don't you, one that visitors will actually stay and visit, instead of hitting the back button after waiting 2 minutes for the page to load.
The better way to go about doing this would be to firstly make out a site plan. We should have a homepage with links to the other main pages, "About Us", "Upcoming Gigs", "Picture gallery", and "Music Links". We must also make sure to put a link to the bands email address on each page so as their fans can get in touch.
First we'll start with the homepage. Since this article is about links I will only discuss the links section of the html code for each page. This page will have five links, four to other pages and one to the email address.
