Changing text to a hyperlink on web or to email

[skeep]

I am new to Photo Impact and am using version 12. I am making a website and throughout a paragraph of text on the page I want the text of particular words that reference other websites to be a different color and be a hot link to that website. I also want to do the same thing with the word email (click it and it goes to email program).

I looked all over Photo Impact and the only thing I can find that looks like it will give me this ability is to change the text to a HTML hypertext object( by going to Web/HTML hyper text object). Only problem is I get an error message that says IE 5 or higher must be installed. I currently use IE 7.

My question is am I going about this the right way? If yes, then does anyone know why I am getting this error message?

Thanks

[palser]

Hi,
You may find that typing the html in directly is easier (esp if your getting errors).

If you rh click on your web page and select "view source" you can edit your page.

to add a hyperlink you would do the following for each word you wanted as a link...

<a href="yourpage1.html">Word</a>

Obviously put in your correct page address for each page.

For your email you would add the following...

<a href="mailto:youraddress@yourisp.com">Email</a>

Hope that helps, let me know how you get on!

Paul.

[skeep]

I know how to map things in Dreamweaver, or hard code them if need be. But I know in PhotoShop I can assign the links right in the Photoshop arena and then when I go to Dreamweaver everything is already coded. I know Photoimpact has this feature with an entire object. My question was can you do it for a specific word in a paragraph in PhotoImpact like I can do in Photoshop. I hope that makes sense.

[skeep]

The errors were caused by a Vista compatibility issue. I installed a patch and it took care of it. So if you get an error message when trying to change text to hyperlink text (it says you need IE v5 or newer) and you already have that, then go to MS and download the bug fix.