It connects your page to other Web pages, to World Wide Web sites, to text within a Web page, and to E-mail addresses. Sometimes a list is the best way to organize information. Or to explain in these on-line notes a concept which requires four steps, a numbered list is a great way to organize the information. Lists can also be used to trick HTML into behaving like a word processor.
Students often learn more from poorly designed sites than they do from examples of excellence.
With that in mind, select two sites which illustrate the Worst of the Web. This critique is not due for a few weeks, but start the research now. Chapter 4 of the Lemay text does a nice job with links. Pay special attention to the information regarding URLs. While classroom examples all link to Web pages and use the HTTP protocol, you may eventually want to link to FTP or Gopher files, which Lemay covers thoroughly.