My Technology Addictions

I am new to blogging and have been reading quiet a few as I look around at some of the sites. One thing I did come across was some people mentioning that they did not really want to add links to other people’s blogs or web pages in their sites as they don’t want to lose their readers.This seems a shame especially was we can learn so much from each other in this ’social network’ so a simple way to keep your readers and still give them these valuable links is to set the ‘Target’ of your links to open in a new page.

These tips are edublogs specific but I am sure similar settings are available in other sites. For Internet Explorer uses it will open a new browser while Firefox users will have a new tab open.

Change the target of your link to open in a new window

You can also set the target window in your blogroll with the following setting that is on the right hand side of the editor window.

You can also add the following target html code to links that are in you sidebar.

<a href=”yourpda.edublog.org” title=”Open link in a new window” target=”_blank”>

Hope this helps