Making a link in your blog

If you want to post a link to a website in your blog, you can just type in the address and another user can copy and paste. BUT, you can also use HTML code to make it an active link, where a user can just click on it. Here's how:

The HTML code (the code used to 'write' web pages) for making a link has three elements: You have to

1. "Turn the code on" and give the url for the link. (<A HREF="http://URL Goes Here in quotes">)
   
2. Name the link: these are the words you want the user to click on to get to the link. This can be the URL, but it can also be a nickname. For example, I can point you the website for the class by encouraging you to click on the name of the class, http://cahe.nmsu.edu/appliedtechnology, or by saying I have a website up for the class. In the second example, I've defined the name of the link as "website up for the class".
   
3. "Turn the code off" (</A> )
   

All together, the code looks like this:
<A HREF="http://URL Goes Here in quotes">What they click on to go to the link Goes Here</A>

Another example...
This sentence:
I have a website up for the class.

is coded like this:
I have a <A HREF="http://cahe.nmsu.edu/appliedtechnology">website up for the class</A> .