Instructions on how to provide a link to our web site. This
is a first draft and is provided as a general guide. Feedback is appreciated to support@vacationrentalpeople.com
Links Examples:
Here you see example of links, along with the code that is used to produce them.
In order to use these links, you will need to copy the code under the link, customise the descriptive text and target destination to suit your property and then paste the code into your own web page.
A link to our home page - simplest form.
www.vacationrentalpeople.com
Paste this code below into your webpage.
Code for a "better" link to target visitors for your property. Obviously replace the wording "France Ski Chalet Rentals" with something suitable for your property:
France Ski Chalet Rentals
Paste this code below into your webpage.
More specific : Portugal Algarve
Villa rentals in the Algarve
Paste this code below into your webpage.
Background information - The anatomy of a link:
You only need to read this if you are curios as to how web pages work behind the scenes!
Taking the second example above for the "France Ski Rentals" link to our homepage, we can break this into three parts:
<a href="http://www.vacationrentalpeople.com" target="_blank" > France Ski Chalet Rentals </a>
First of all, we have what is called a TAG - encased in between the < and > signs. This part will not be visible to the user - it is an instruction to the web browser to do something. In this case, the tag is an 'A' tag (look at the first thing that appears after the < sign). An 'A' tag is an instruction to the browser to start to create a link to another page or site.
Within this tag, there are two instructions.
The first instruction is the 'href'- It says href="http://www.vacationrentalpeople.com" . The href tells the browser WHERE to take the user to, if they click on the link - in this case it references the home page of vacationrentalpeople.com but you can point it to any page on any site. Note that unless you are sure what you are doing, it is important to include the leading http:// exactly as it appears in the top bar of your web browser, otherwise strange results can follow!
The second part is target="_blank". This is an instruction to open the linked page in a new browser window - so that users are not directed away from your site if they click on the link.
What then follows the tag is the text that the user actually sees on the screen - it is 'outside' of any tags (not inside the < and > pair ) so will be displayed on the screen. In our example this is "France Ski Chalet Rentals".
This will become the clickable part of the page that the users see.
Finally follows the 'closing' A tag - again inside a pair of < and > brackets. The fact that this is a closing tag is denoted by the slash (/) before the letter A. The closing tag tells the browser that this is the end of the previously created A tag and that it should stop applying the link here.
Last update 17th Feb 2008.