Hi everyone. I'm a beginner though I did design my own ebay store using plain html which was self taught.

This time because my website is more complex (affiliate marketing) I decided to purchase a web design program... WebPlus 10.

I'm having trouble understanding how to hyperlink pre-given image codes. For example, the parent company supplies codes for images (<a href... ), I insert these into my website, visitors clink the link and it takes them to the parent company's website.

That's the idea but where to start? The help files in webplus aren't clear on how to do this. Do I copy and paste the code into an html frame? The hyperlink menu prompts me for a URL address but is the <a href> command actually the URL?
What about the target window option? I want the image to appear and when clicked on take the visitor to a new window but not close my site. How do I this?

When I first started putting the site together I managed to get the images to appear on the page. I uploaded to my server and it all looked good but clicking on the image opened the page unavailable error screen. I figured that's because I hadn't specified a target.

Now when I try to add the hyperlink I can't get the image up at all. It just displays the code and not the pic. I have tried saving the pic and inserting it onto my page, then creating a target address. But the problem with this is that the pic is then static.

If anyone knows about webplus 10 and inserting affiliate codes I would so appreciate any help.

Cheers!

To turn an image into a hyper link, you need the following code:

<a href = "http://link_destination.com"> <img src = "http://image_location.com"> </a>

Or if you just want to link text, you do the following:

<a href = "http://link_destination.com"> text text text</a>

Hope that helps

Thanks for that. Only it hasn't helped. I understand what the code should look like. As said, I'm given the codes.

I don't understand how to insert them as a hyperlink into webplus.

You should start by understanding what the <a> tag is. <a> is short for anchor, which means, basically, any type of link. Anchor tags can wrap around either images or text.

around text:

<a href="http://anysite.com">Any site</a>

around an image:

<a href="http://anysite.com"><img src="http://anysite.com/images.anyimage.jpg" alt="any image" /></a>

the 'href' property tells where the link is taking you to. The 'src' property in the <image> tag tell you where the image is located. This is a very simple concept once you get the hang of it.

Both the 'href' and 'src' properties can be referenced with either relative or absolute paths, but that is a different discussion.

I have no idea what webplus is, but I suggest you find a way to toggle HTML code, so that you can insert the code directly. This is usually a feature that will be available.

Oh sorry, I can't help with that

All these WYSIWYG editors that I have seen have the option to see the source code (html view or code view).

Place an X on the page in WYSIWYG mode and then switch to code view, backspace to remove the X and paste in the code provided.

Then switch back to WYSIWYG and you image should appear as a link when you preview the page. You may have to save and open it in a browser. I have never heard of the program you are using so I don't know for sure.