Tham khảo tài liệu 'tự học html và css trong 1 giờ - part 58', công nghệ thông tin, đồ họa - thiết kế - flash phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 546 lesson 18 Writing Good Web Pages Do s and Don ts Using Links Without links web pages would be dull and finding anything interesting on the Web would be close to impossible. In many ways the quality of your links can be as important as the writing and design of your actual pages. Here s some friendly advice on creating and using links. Use Link Menus with Descriptive Text As I ve noted throughout this book using link menus is a great way of organizing your content and the links on a page. If you organize your links into lists or other menu-like structures your visitors can scan their options for the page quickly and easily. Just organizing your links into menus might not be enough however. Make sure that your descriptions aren t too short. For example using menus of filenames or other marginally descriptive links in menus can be tempting see Figure . FIGURE DON T A poor link menu. Each link describes the actual page to which it points but it doesn t describe the content of the page. How do visitors know what s on the other side of the link and how can they decide whether they re interested in it from the limited information you ve given them Of these three links only the last gives the visitors a hint about what they ll see when they jump to that file. A better plan is either to provide some extra text describing the content of the file as shown in Figure or to avoid the filenames altogether. Just describe the contents of the files in the menu with the appropriate text highlighted as shown in Figure . Download from Using Links 547 FIGURE DO A better link menu. FIGURE DO Another better link menu. Either one of these forms is better than the first. They both give your visitors more clues about what s on the other side of the link. Use Links in Text The best way to provide links in text is to first write the text as if it isn t going to have links at all for example as if you were writing it for .
