Add Hyperlinks to Other Websites or Other Pages on Your site

Adding a link to another page on your website

When adding or editing content on a page, you may want to include a link to some other page on your site. For example, you may have a short introductory sentence on your home page about one of your libraries services, at the end of which you would include a link to the “Services” page where the user could find more details. Follow these steps to complete that task:

  1. You first need to obtain the URL for that page. At the top of the main content management dashboard, or at the bottom left of any of the add / edit content popup screens, you’ll see a link entitled “Link Builder”. When you select that link, a popup box will appear that lets you identify the page that you’d like to link to. When the URL appears in the form, highlight and copy that url (Ctrl-C), and close the link builder window.
  2. Back in the Add / Edit content screen, type in some text that will be used for the link.
  3. Highlight the text that you just typed in, and click the “Link” icon in the toolbar (first icon on the left in the second row).
  4. The cursor will already be placed in the URL field. Simply paste in the URL that you previously copied (Ctrl-V).
  5. Click the green OK button
  6. Save your changes

Adding a link to an external website

  1. Type in the text that will appear as the link (NOTE: For accessibility purposes, make sure that the text is explanatory. For example, don’t just type “Click here”, and create a link using that text, as that does not give sight-impaired users any indication of what the link is supposed to provide. Instead, use language like this: “More information about our delivery service is available here…”)
  2. Highlight the text and click the “Link” icon in the toolbar (first icon on the left in the second row).
  3. The cursor will already be placed in the URL field. Type or paste in the URL of the website that you are linking to
  4. Click the green OK button
  5. Save your changes