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The Magic of Linking (continued)
Chose Your TargetBy default, an <A href= > link will open the target document in the same browser window that the link is in. This means the current page disappears and the new page replaces it on the visitor's screen. For links that connect pages within your own Web site, this is exactly what you want to occur. But if you're referring people to a page on someone else's site, and you want to encourage the visitor to return to yours, it's a better idea to have the link open a new browser window. That way your site stays on the user's screen too. Hopefully when they're done inspecting the document you've sent them too, they'll close that new browser window you opened for them, and the Web page where they started-yours-will still be on their screen. Although it may sound complicated, pulling it off is really simple. Just use the target attribute, like this:
<A href="http://gocertify.com/" target="outside">Click here to visit GoCertify.com</A>
The above link will open the target in a new window named "outside." If you use target="outside" for other anchor links on your page too, the links will open in that same window. Try it:
Click here to visit GoCertify.com
Click here to visit Yahoo! (in the same Window as the previous link).
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