Umbraco Basics

Logging into Umbraco Admin The Umbraco Interface Working with Content Sorting or Reordering Pages Editing Content Preview Content and Changes Copying Content from Word Inserting Images into Content Creating Links Inserting & Linking PDFs into Copy Linking to an email address Media Section Adding Video Adding Users FAQs Reset a user password Writing Meta Tags Related Links How to insert a table Inserting Extra Columns and Rows to Your Table Uploaded Image Is Upside down!?

Creating Links

You can create links on text or images that link to:

  • other pages
  • documents. E.g. PDFs, word documents etc
  • an email address (and open a new email)

To create a link:

1. In the text area , select the text or image that you want to link.

2. Click on the link icon at the top of your screen.

The insert link dialog box will appear (see below)

3. In the popup box you can choose what type of link to create.

  • To link to an external website: In the Url textbox, enter the web address (starting with http://)
  • To link to a mail address: In the Url textbox, type 'mailto:' (without the quotes) followed by the email address.
  • To link to a page within the current website: Choose a page from the Content Panel
  • To link to a document in the media section: Click the 'Link to file'.

4. Click 'SELECT' to insert the link.

Note:  Use the icon to the right of the link icon  'unlink' to cancel the link.

The following pages go into detail of specific cases.