About bookmarks
There may be occasions when you might want to refer your reader to a specific paragraph within a page on your website for further information.
A bookmark provides a quick hyperlink to exactly the right spot within that page, to see a bookmark in action follow the hyperlink at the end of this sentence and see the date John Keats penned his famous poem Ode to Autumn, then take a moment to travel up the page to see the poem above.
How to add a bookmark
To add your own bookmarks, go to the text you wish to direct your reader to, highlight it and click on the anchor icon
, type a brief description (I recommend one or two words - don't use punctuation such as apostrophes, hyphens, etc) and then click OK.
Now go to the point you wish to redirect your reader from.
Highlight the text you wish to use as the start point, select the hyperlink icon and type in the web address and then the # character, finally the bookmark, for example to redirect you to the date for Ode to Autumn the link was:
http://www.club-sites.co.uk/newsletters/september2009/abookmarkinaction.html#date
The bookmark was called date in this example.
To test the link, lock the page using the padlock icon Edit Off and click on the hyperlink you embedded. Sometimes, depending on how much text is on a page you might find that it appears to miss the landing spot, this is because the control panel is hiding it, go up two lines and you will see you are in the correct place, all will be well when the page is published.
Other uses for bookmarks
Apart from bookmarks to other pages you might want to index a long report, by including an index at the top of the page you can allow readers to jump to various sections, have a look at this example.
