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Web Design Guidelines: Using Links Effectively

1. Create meaningful links

When you are creating a link, make sure that the text in the link is meaningful. The link text should flow naturally within the document and should not inhibit readability. 

Early Web documents often used the text "Click Here" as the link text. For example:

Click here to view the sample document.

A better way to create the link is to use the text "View the sample document" as a link. For example:

View the sample document.

2. Check your links

After you have finished creating a document that contain  hypertext links you should check the links to make sure they are valid links.  It is very frustrating, when you are reading an HTML document, to be given an error message when you follow a link. 

 

 

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