Introduction
It is possible to embed links to websites as well as graphical images in your
WebGuide notes using simple HTML. When you click on the title of a note in
WebGuide, the content of that note appears in a web page browser that displays
the effects of HTML. Therefore, by embedding HTML tags in the content of notes
when you write or edit them, you can produce hypertext effects. Always see how
your content looks in the browser and then go back and edit it if it is not the
way you want it.
Bold and Italics
HTML adds special features to plain text to make it multimedia hypertext. It
does this primarily by inserting "tags" into the plain text, usually
before and after a text segment. I like to use upper case for HTML tags to make
them stand out from the plain text, but it does not matter.
Suppose you want to make the word "special" show up in bold face.
Simply put the HTML tag for bold, <B>, before that word and the HTML
end-tag, </B>, after it. Tags always appear within angle brackets and the
end tag is the same as the start tag but with a / in front. Thus, "This is
a <B>special</B> word." will appear as "This is a special
word."
Italics works the same way: "This is a <I>special</I>
word." will appear as "This is a special word."
Website Links
Links to other websites are just a bit more complicated. Suppose we want to
embed a link like this: "Click here to go to http://GerryStahl.net/webguide/manual/websites.html."
First we would declare that the phrase "Click here" is the
"anchor" for our link with an anchor tag: "<A>Click
here</A> to go to http://GerryStahl.net/webguide/manual/websites.html."
Then we specify where the link should go to with a hypertext reference HREF
parameter inside of the start tag: "<A HREF="http://GerryStahl.net/webguide/manual/websites.html:>Click
here</A> to go to
http://GerryStahl.net/webguide/manual/websites.html."
This will appear as: "Click
here to go to http://GerryStahl.net/webguide/manual/websites.html."
Hint: this looks complicated, but just cut-and-paste from this example. Do
not forget to put the URL location in quotation marks.
Graphic Images
Graphics are inserted by linking to a graphics file that is already on the
Web. An image tag is similar to an anchor tag. However it does not enclose text
so it does not need an end tag.
To include my picture from my homepage in a WebGuide note, insert this tag:
<IMG SRC="http://GerryStahl.net/images/g_cup.gif">
It will appear as: 
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