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Me again :) Is anyone able to tell me how to add a "Button" to replace text link that directs someone to another page of the website?

Any help most appreciated as always! Thank you.

Thank you :)

if you are using software to create your site then you can usually insert an image then give it a 'link', 'hyperlink' or hot spot which goes to the web page you require (depends on what software you are using)

'target' is how that link opens ie 'blank' is a new window or 'self' replace your web page with the new one

it should bring all attached pictures etc in to your webspace if you upload through the software

if you search in google there are free button makers where you can then download you creation and put in your webpage

If you're making a website, presumably you have some hosting sorted out?

Your hosting is just some space on a web server, but any images you want to display on your site need to be uploaded to your server.

(actually, you can reference images on someone else's site, but this is frowned upon and you can't be sure they won't remove the image later or change the image the URL you're using points to...)

If you create a website on your own machine then all the images, files etc will be in folders on the local machine where you stored them. To view the same site on the great www, the same applies. You need to upload your site to your folders on a server. These will then become available for all to see. Simple explanation but there you go.

If you are using Instant site and Freeola, then you should already have an allocated web space containing folders for your newly created site:-)

Hello thank you for your replies - very helpful :)

Sorry to sound divvy but am I right in saying that any image you want to use on a website for whatever reason, has to be on a server / webspace before it can be uploaded to the site?

Sibs wrote:
> Depends what you mean by 'button'... If you just want something
> that looks like a button you can just create an image that looks
> however you want (like the 'Post Message', 'Post Reply', etc.
> blue buttons on freeola) and then make that button a link with
> the same URL as the text you're replaing:
> <a href="mylink.html"><img
> src="mybutton.jpg" /></a>
>
Or...you could use:

This is a static image, no link:

<img src="image folder/logo.gif" width="75" height="25" border="0" alt="describe the image here">

This is a 'link' image, a link 'button':

<a href="http://www.yoursite.com" target="new"><img src="image folder/whatever.gif" height="25" width="75" border="0" alt=" whatever in here">

NB: If you have stored your images in a folder, then the img src tag has to point to the containing folder ie 'image folder/whatever.gif' where image folder refers to your folder and the remainder is the file itself. The 'height and width' references are optional, but advised as they will set the image within the 'table' if you are using one, setting 'border' to '0' will help, no border will be displayed when the link is 'clicked'. It will be by default without this setting. The 'alt' gives a 'flyout' description when the mouse cursor moves over the link - it just reinforces the link as per www3:-)

Hope this helps :-)

Depends what you mean by 'button'... If you just want something that looks like a button you can just create an image that looks however you want (like the 'Post Message', 'Post Reply', etc. blue buttons on freeola) and then make that button a link with the same URL as the text you're replaing:
<a href="mylink.html"><img src="mybutton.jpg" /></a>

If you want a 'proper' HTML button (or you want the text on the button to change dynamically) you should use an HTML button.
See W3Schools for more info about HTML buttons.

Me again :) Is anyone able to tell me how to add a "Button" to replace text link that directs someone to another page of the website?

Any help most appreciated as always! Thank you.