Back to the Link Targets and Phone Links Video
welcome in this video we're going to
show you
how you can do a couple fun things with
links
i'll first show you how you can create a
link that will open in a new tab
and i'll also show you how to create a
link for phone numbers
which makes a little bit easier for
mobile users to interact
with contact information on your site so
what i'll first do is i'm going to
create just a basic page for something
first to play with
what i'm going to show you today will
require you to have access to the
wysiwyg editor here
because we're going to be using this
button right here
so as with any normal link you first lay
down your text so just make sure it's
descriptive
of you know where it's going to be
pointing to let's say i want to you know
point someone to this lorem ipsum page
so
what i'll do is i'll add my text
and then i will highlight the part of
the text that i want to make the link
and i'll click this link icon notice
there's another one with the plus symbol
that one's going to be for if you're
linking to pages on your website
in this case i'm going to click on this
guy here and
i'm going to copy and paste the full url
from the external site
paste it here and then i'm going to go
up to this target tab
and i'm going to click on this drop down
and select
new window underscore blank and click ok
and that little target tab is what
allows us to open this
in a new tab now what i can also do
like i mentioned earlier is you can also
create links for phone numbers
so this is pretty simple to do all you
do is you would type out the phone
number
and highlight it then click on the same
link button and i'm going to go down
here to protocol and i'm going to change
this to other
and then you're going to type in t e l
colon
then you can add the country code so
this for the usa would be
plus one and then you'll type in the
full phone number
without the dashes i would ignore any
extensions or anything like that
go ahead and click ok and now let's test
this out i'm going to publish my page
here
oh i need to give it a name first
and this should open in a new tab
and this should prompt my computer to
open up a phone application
which it does tries to pop open facetime
so
uh yeah that's in a nutshell how you
create links to open in new tabs
and how you create links or phone
numbers