LINKS....
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I forget sometimes and just throw words around assuming that everyone is on the same wave link as myself. Evidently, the word LINK is confusing to some folks new to computing and so we thought we devote a little time here and try to explain it better.
Do you see that web page address at the top of your browser now? It looks like this...
http://www.longviewhillshere.blogspot.com
That is the address of this webpage that you are looking at now. It is just like your home street address. That is where this page lives on the internet.
Every time you click on a new webpage to look at you will notice that the above address changes for each and every website. Just like I live at 5706 NE Windmill dr. and you live at your different address.
Now if we were to write your address down and show it to you here as if we were a telephone directory you would know right where to go. We could say that your address is a link that could be followed to find your home.
So when we put a link down for you to follow we are saying click here and you will be taken to the place from which this information comes.
Now people who can program these links have learned that people get confused by that long string of code as in that example above. So they might just put down a word like LINK which disguises all the code necessary to make a link work. You just click on the word then and it takes you to the source page that is being discussed.
In most cases links are blue and underlined. BUT!!!! On this site they are green and only become underlined if you put the mouse arrow on them.
So at the bottom of the snippets 0f news stories you will find the word LINK and clicking on that word will take you the full article at its news source.
One other thing ... Nope it's not hard at all and envolves little or no work to put in these snippets and links to news that I think may interest you.
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