How do we add a link to our personal website next to our names on the profile listing of itsaboutlove.org?

 

Adding a link to the text of your intro statement on itsaboutlove.org is fairly easy. Follow these steps:

1. Get the full internet address (or URL) of the home page of your internet site. If you have created a blog or other personal webspace to which you would like to direct birthmothers then pull up the homepage of that site in your internet browser. Next open a document editing program (like Microsoft Word). Then copy (Ctrl+C in Windows) the contents of your address bar in your internet browser program and paste (Ctrl+V) the text into your document editor. What you should see should begin with "http://..." If I were going to add a link that takes the viewer to this page, the internet address shown in the address bar above would be what I need. This is what it would look like (the colors in the examples are only for clarification as to what to do at each step):

http://www.robertandsharon.com/ldsfs/ldsfs-link.htm
 

2. Insert your internet address into the html code. You need the following code shown in blue with your internet address inserted at the appropriate place:

   <a href="YOUR INTERNET ADDRESS INSERTED HERE" target="_blank"></a>

   (NOTE: The part of the code that reads target="_blank" is optional, but recommended. This tells the browser to open your personal website in a new browser window. Without it your personal website would open in the existing browser, and the viewer would have to hit the back button to return to their itsaboutlove.org search list. The number of times that they have to hit the back button will be determined by the number of pages they view on your personal website. By adding target="_blank" to your code you eliminate the need for the viewer to hit the back button repeatedly, which makes for greater ease in viewing.)

   If I were inserting the internet address of this page into this code it would look like this:

   <a href="http://www.robertandsharon.com/ldsfs/ldsfs-link.htm" target="_blank"></a>

3. Add the text that you want to be linked. The text that you insert here will be the text that appears to the viewer. On the itsaboutlove.org website this text will appear blue with an underline to indicate to the viewer that it is a link. Once the page has been visited by the viewer the link color will change to purple. (If you want this text color to be different see my page about changing font color.) The place for your linked text is shown here in purple:

   <a href="YOUR INTERNET ADDRESS" target="_blank">INSERT YOUR LINKED TEXT HERE</a>

   Again, if I were linking someone to this page this is what I might type:

   <a href="http://www.robertandsharon.com/ldsfs/ldsfs-link.htm" target="_blank">Come visit us here!</a>

Example:

Here is how I might create a link in my intro statement on itsaboutlove.org to my personal website www.robertandsharon.com. I would type the following into the text box:

We are hoping for another bundle of joy to join us soon! <a href="http://www.robertandsharon.com" target="_blank">Come learn more about us here!</a>

 

Then my listing would look like this:

Robert and Sharon: We are hoping for another bundle of joy to join us soon! Come learn more about us here!