Getting people to visit your site is a difficult thing to do so it would be a shame to lose them any quicker than was really necessary.
This article is about a personal issue I have regarding web programming and it is one not shared by everyone, however, have a read and see what you think.
I will give you a link to Youtube ….. nothing funny is waiting for you, no jokes or viruses, trust me. Here is the link – Youtube – have you clicked it?
So, what happened was that a new window popped open, you saw a ‘different’ website than mine and when you closed that new site – Youtube – I was still sat here.
Here is the other version – please press back arrow to come back for the rest of the article – so now visit this link again – Youtube
Hey, welcome back!
So, do you see the point of that experiment? What it means, for me, is that when I want to show someone something or point to a site I always leave my site open as a reference point so people don’t say “Now what was I looking at originally?”. If I am pointing to something that is final, such as a “Sorry I don’t have that information, here it is.” Then my link will be a normal one. Or if I am opening a page within this website it will be normal.
Here is how it is done. You will need to get to the code for the link, so open up the page in question where the link is sitting.
This is a normal link to Youtube (using the word ‘Youtube’ as, what is called, the anchor text). <a href="http://youtube.com">Youtube</a>
And here is the link to open a new window – <a href="http://youtube.com" target="_blank">Youtube</a> – as you can see it is the addition of target=”_blank” that did the trick.
There you have my point of view on linking to other sites and a brief look at how to do some basic coding.