Create connections to other Web sites

You can link multiple Web sites together in several ways.

Create a link to another Web site

If you have Internet Explorer 4 or higher or Netscape Navigator 4 or higher, you can drag icons that represent URLs into a CuteSITE Builder page to quickly create links to other Web or intranet content.

1. In your browser, browse to the page you want to link to.

2. Find the little symbol that represents this address. In Netscape Navigator, this is the icon to the left of the word Location. In Internet Explorer, this is the icon between the word Address and the actual URL.

3. In CuteSITE Builder, click on the page so that it has focus.

4. Drag the address symbol from the browser into the CuteSITE Builder page and release it. The URL you dragged appears as a link; you can edit its text.

Display one Web site inside another using a container page

1. Right-click the map and choose Insert Container Page.

2. Click the Contents drop-down arrow and select URL.

3. 3 In the space below the drop-down box, specify the exact address of the Web site you want to reference or,

• You can click Browse to browse to the file you want to link to. Then copy the URL from the browser’s location field, switch back to the CuteSITE Builder dialog, and paste it into the URL field.

The CuteSITE Builder file appears in the page area of the container page. By default, CuteSITE Builder creates a narration border to the left of the page area in which you can annotate the container page. You can change the appearance of this border, add other borders, or display no borders for the container page.

CuteSITE Builder indicates container page in the map with a red dot.

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Notes

• Once you have created a link, you can later view or edit its properties.

• In CuteSITE Builder, map elements that are linked can optionally display a square link icon in the lower left, to remind you a link is present. If you do not want to see this link symbol, you can choose Tools > Options to disable it.

• While editing a file, in order to follow a link from a map element to a page, file, or URL, you must double-click on the map element. This allows you to also select the map element for other editing functions.

• Make sure that you clearly distinguish linked map elements and pages. It is possible to place them so closely together that a reader's click may be ambiguous.

• You can also choose Insert > Container Page to add a container page.

• You can change the page properties of a container page just as you would any other CuteSITE Builder page. The only difference is that the Container Page Properties dialog box includes a Contents tab with which you can change the contents of the container page.

• Note that both of these types of references to external files are hyperlinks to material outside the CuteSITE Builder file, not objects embedded in the file. When you distribute files that contain these links, you must ensure that your visitors have the same access to the external file that you had. If the link is to an external file, other visitors must store the external file in the same folder on the same path as was on your system.

• In order to display any external file in a CuteSITE Builder page, you must have a Web browser control installed, and it must be properly configured, but the specific type of browser control does not matter. (The only 32-bit Windows version known not to have a basic Web browser control available is Windows 95A without the Plus Pak.)

• You can also create a link to a URL or file in a CuteSITE Builder page, or reference external resources in a container page. When you or a visitor clicks the link, CuteSITE Builder opens the actual page on the Web or the file in its native application. Again, visitors must have the same access to the Web page or external file as you in order to use the link.