Linking your to your static HTML Pages

Exercise: Building Your Own Static Page Generator

You will only really start to understand the technology if you start building your own application. So what we will do is automatically build a html form that will link all the pages together. To do this you will need to

Devise a suitable HTML Skeleton that will display links to each of the html pages

Incorporate that HTML into your Access VB code

Use the examples from the MakeHTML subroutine explained on the previous page

Debug your application until you have a suitable output page with links

Post the new pages to the internet

More HTML That You Will Need To Know

<BODY BGColour = "Green">
Change the colour of the pages background. This is one the Tag extensions that do not have an ending as this is covered by </BODY>

Make Text Bold Make Text Italic
Enclose text inside the Bold and Italic tags to emphasize your text

Make the text bigger and green
There are many different permutations in text tags. The trick here is to get the design right before you start building your web pages.

Link Tags The "A" Tag

A link tag does have a start and finish. Assume that you want to link to our Web Site then the tag would start as follows

<A HREF="http://www.vb123.com/graf/">Data Mining Shareware</A>

HREF="http://www.vb123.com/graf/" gives the destination

Data Mining Shareware is the alternative text that will be displayed for you to hyperlink from. We will be using the Link tags to point the main page to the generated pages.

But if all your pages are being stored in the same directory as the page being displayed, you do not need to store the path of the link in the references follows

<A HREF="graf-fx.htm">Data Mining Shareware</A>

This is called a Relative Link. If the graf-fx.htm file was in a sub directory called grafs, you would reference it as follows

<A HREF="grafs/graf-fx.htm">Data Mining Shareware</A>

So click on this

And start building your own link page using visual basic.

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Published 1999-05