Ida was one of my first friends in the blogosphere.  Back then her blog was about weight loss.  It has expanded to be much more than that.  August 27 she started a new blog, which she calls “Living on the Mountain While Walking Through the Valley.”  I encourage you to visit Ida’s new blog.  To do that just click here.

If you clicked on the link above as it was created by Blogger, you would leave Secondary Roads and be taken directly to Living on the Mountain.  Alternatively, you could right click on the link and then select Open in new Window or Open in new Tab.  Here’s how you can modify the link to open in a new window:

Click on the Edit HTML tab.  At the end of the first paragraph look for this code:

[less than sign]a href=”http://onthemountaininthevalley.blogspot.com/”[greater than sign]here[less than sign]/a[greater than sign]

This is the “a” tag, and is often called an anchor tag.  It is used to create HTML links.  There are three parts above: The opening tag, which contains the URL to which you want to link.  The second part is the text that will highlighted for the link.  Finally, you’ll see a closing tag.

To modify the link so that it will open in a new window, you have to be on the “Edit HTML” tab.  Locate the link (it is identified above).  In the opening tag between the closing quote on URL and the “>” insert a space followed by text like this: [space]target=”[name]” where name is the name you assign to the new window.

That’s all there is to it.  The modified opening tag looks like this:

[less than sign]a href=”http://onthemountaininthevalley.blogspot.com/” target=”1″[greater than sign]here[less than sign]/a[greater than sign]

In the example, I used “1” for the target name.  You can use any digit, letter or combination of them, but don’t use special characters.  I did this on Tuesdays post.  Each link opens in a new window, and each link has a different target (Window name).

Be sure to visit Ida, and if you like what you see then become a follower. Thanks.
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