Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional in 10 Minutes

By Dorothy Burke and Jane Calabria

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Lesson 1. Navigating Windows 2000 Professional
  • Lesson 2. Working with a Window
  • Lesson 3. Using Menus
  • Lesson 4. Using Windows 2000 Professional Help
  • Lesson 5. Using Dialog Boxes
  • Lesson 6. Working with Multiple Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 7. Copying, Moving, and Linking Between Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 8. Using My Computer
  • Lesson 9. Managing Files with My Computer
  • Lesson 10. Using WordPad
  • Lesson 11. Understanding File Properties and the Recycle Bin
  • Lesson 12. Printing
  • Lesson 13. Using My Network Places
  • Lesson 14. Using the Control Panel
  • Lesson 15. Using Outlook Express Mail
  • Lesson 16. Sharing Workstations and Setting Passwords
  • Lesson 17. Using Internet Explorer 5
    • Starting Internet Explorer 5
    • Navigating the IE5 Window
    • The IE5 Toolbars
    • Navigating a Web Page
    • Reading URLs
    • Visiting a Web Site
    • Understanding Links
    • Understanding Caching
  • Lesson 18. Web Site and Document Searching
  • Lesson 19. Troubleshooting, Restarting, and Disaster Planning
  • Lesson 20. Customizing the Windows 2000 Environment

Understanding Links

Links are embedded pointers to other Web pages. They appear within a Web page as colored text, pictures, or buttons. When you click a link, you jump to the page the link points to.

Several kinds of links are used on the Web, and they act as pointers to help you reach your destination. It would be impossible for you to know the URL (address) of every Web page you want to visit. So, Web page designers create links that contain URLs. Point and click, point and click—that's all you really need to do when you're moving around a Web site.

An image map is a single (usually large) picture that has different portions of it mapped to different addresses. That is, one part of the picture will point to Web page x, another part will point to Web page y, and a third will point to Web page z. You jump to different pages depending on what part of the picture you click. It's different from a graphic link, which points to only one Web page.

Figure 17.7 shows an image map. The image map is a single graphic, but it contains many embedded links. As you point to various areas of this one graphic, you activate different links.

Figure 17.7 An image map contains many embedded links.

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