The tag to create a link is called <a>, which stands for "anchor." While the word "anchor" might seem a little obscure when describing links, it has to do with the fact that you can use the <a> tag to identify a particular spot within a web pagean anchor point. Granted, there are certainly better words out there that would make more sense, but we're stuck with "anchor" so just go with it! Within the <a> tag, you put the address of the page to link to in quotes after HRef=, like the following:

<a href="http://www.the3factory.com">click here!</a>

This link displays the words click here! in blue with an underline. When a user clicks those words, she sees the web page named products.html, which is located on the web server computer whose address iswww.the3factory.com just as if she had typed the address into the web browser by hand. (By the way, Internet addresses are also called Uniform Resource Locators, or URLs, by techie types.)

Getting back to the <a> tag, HRef stands for "hypertext reference" and is an attribute of the <a> tag. An attribute is an extra piece of information associated with a tag that provides further details about the tag. For example, the href attribute of the <a> tag identifies the address of the page to which you are linking.