You probably also clicked on certain words or images to bring you to this tutorial in the first place. These connections between pieces of information are called links (also known as hyperlinks or hypertext links) and they are the quickest, easiest and most effective way of getting around pages on the Internet.

Here’s a tip - whenever you visit a new web page, try moving your mouse pointer around the screen – if it changes to a hand, it’s a link.

Try it now – move your mouse over the words "text link" and the graphic link picture at the top of this page and watch your mouse pointer change – but don’t click on the links just yet! (hold that thought – we’ll try it for real a little later).

Links can take you just about anywhere:

• within the same page
• to another page on the same web site
• to another web site anywhere in the world.

Some more interesting facts to help you recognise and use links:

• Words that are links are usually in a different colour and underlined. The colour will be different depending on which web site you are in and they may even be different within a site. In this tutorial the links are blue.
• After you use a text link the colour will change to let you know you’ve already visited that location. In this tutorial visited links are purple.
• Graphics that are links may not be immediately obvious.
  But remember, you know you are on a link if your mouse pointer changes to a small hand when you move over the image.
• You only have to click once on a link to make it work!

Click on the graphic link first, then come back for another taste!