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Linking and Navigation
Once you’ve set up a local site in which to store your Web site documents and
have created HTML pages, you’ll want to create connections from your
documents to other documents or file types. (For information on setting up a
local site, see “Using Dreamweaver to set up a new site” on page 102.)
Macromedia Dreamweaver provides several ways to create hypertext links to
documents, images, multimedia files, or downloadable software. You can establish
links to any text or image anywhere within a document, including text or images
located in a heading, list, table, layer, or frame. For details on creating links, see
“Creating links” on page 358.
For a visual representation of how your files are linked together, use the site
map. In the site map you can add new documents to your site, create and
remove document links, and check links to dependent files. See “Using the site
map” on page 117.
There are several different ways of creating and managing links. Some Web
designers prefer creating links to nonexistent pages or files as they work, while
others prefer creating all the files and pages first, then adding the links. Another
way to manage links is to create “placeholder” pages which stand in for the final
file and let you add links quickly and check them before you have actually
completed all the pages. See “Checking links in a page or site” on page 506.