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How to add a HyperLink to your Email messages?
I was having coffee with some fellow Lions last week, and one of them asked me, How did I get a HyperLink in an Email message that I had sent out announcing that our clubs newsletter that had just been posted on the Clubs Web Site.
First, lets define what a HYPERLINK is. A HYPERLINK is a place (text or picture) on a web page or in an Email message, that allows you to CLICK ON IT and then you are taken to ANOTHER web page. I have an example in the next paragraph.
Visit the Lions District 5M1 website ( http://www.lions5m1.org ). Look to the LEFT, you will see several TEXT HYPERLINKS. If you put your cursor (the little arrow that moves when you move your mouse around on your monitor) over one of these TEXT HYPERLINKS, the arrow turns into a LITTLE HAND. Once you click on this hyperlink, you are taken to another web page.
This web page can be part of the website you are on, OR it can be another web page on another website anywhere on the Internet. This simple concept is what makes the Internet such a powerful media.
I use an electronic mailing list I have set up for my Lions Club to announce to all club members that they can now view the latest newsletter on the Clubs web site. I want them to be able to GO TO the location that I have place the newsletter with the LEAST AMOUNT of effort. In this case, I put a TEXT HYPERLINK in the body of my Email message.
Here is how to do this.
- The web site address for my club is ---- http://www.sunsetlions.org
- I put all newsletters in a folder called NEWSLETTERS on the web site.
- The web address of this folder is
http://www.sunsetlions.org/NEWSLETTER
- It is IMPORTANT to SEPARATE the Club Website address AND the Newsletter Folder with a / . Think of the club website address as an envelope and INSIDE the envelope you place a monthly newsletter printed on a SINGLE piece of paper. If it is the month of MARCH, you have three pieces of paper inside the envelope. In effect, newsletters for January, February and March for 2005.
- If you want to have the Lions members be able to click on this hyperlink and go directly to the MARCH newsletter you
- Simply add the NAME of that newsletter (Dec2005) to the END of the web address above
. the link will read as follows;
- http://www.sunsetlions.org/NEWSLETTER/Dec2005 .
If you wanted to read the newsletter for the month of February the hypertext would be http://www.sunsetlions.org/NEWSLETTER/Dec2005
- It is IMPORTANT to BEGIN the text hyperlink with
. http://
. Then put in the domain name (web address) of the web site. Next put the successive folders and sub-locations of the final web document you want the reader to view.
- It is also very important to make sure that the names are type in the same case ( Upper case and Lower Case letters) in the file names. This is especially important if the computer that is hosting your website is running on a Unix / Linux operating system.
- UNDERLINED TEXT on a web site, means that this is a Hyper Link. If you click on it, you will be taken to ANOTHER web page.
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