How to add links to an article

Links help visitors move around your site, whether to another page, an email address or a different website altogether. This guide covers the three kinds you’ll add most often.

Adding a link

1. Log in to your web office, select the group that holds your page, open the Documents tab and click the article’s title to open the editor.
2. Highlight the text you want to turn into a link.
3. Click the ‘Link’ icon on the toolbar. The dialog that opens has a ‘Link Type’ dropdown and a box for the address.
4. To link somewhere within your own site, click ‘Browse Server’. That opens Hubb’s own picker, where you choose the type of content from the dropdown, such as ‘Group Homepage’, then pick the group or item you want and click ‘Select’ to confirm.
5. To link to another website, choose ‘Website (URL)’ in the picker, type or paste the address, click ‘Check URL’ to make sure it’s valid, then click ‘OK’.
6. For links to other websites, set the ‘Open in’ option to a new tab before you click ‘OK’. That way your own site stays open when someone follows the link.
7. To link to an email address, choose ‘E-mail’ as the link type and enter the address. You can also pre-fill the subject line, so emails from your church social page arrive already titled ‘Church social query’ and whoever reads the inbox knows what it’s about at a glance.
8. Click ‘Save’, then use ‘Preview’ to test each link works as you expect.

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Good to know

• The ‘Browse Server’ picker lets you link to articles, events, media files and other content on your site, not only group homepages. There’s also a ‘System Page’ option for built-in pages like the login page.
• Links within your own site are best left opening in the same tab; save a new tab for other websites.
• You don’t have to highlight text first. If nothing is selected, the editor uses the address itself as the link text, which is rarely what you want on a church website, so it’s worth highlighting some proper wording before you start.