Serena Collage Content Management System : How to Create Links

Turning text or image into a Link

There are two types of links:

• Internal: Any page that is maintained in the Content Management System or is part of the University of Toledo website.
• External: Any page that takes you out of the University of Toledo website

Making an Internal Link

• Select or highlight desired text or image.
• Click the Link button
  
  
  
  
• Select the Internal tab along the top of the window.
• Navigate to the page you would like to link to through the folders listed on the left
• Click the checkbox next to the file name
• In the Target drop-down menu, select Current Window
• Click OK

Making an External Link

Internet Explorer users:

• Highlight the text you want to link, press CTRL + K. 
• A Hyperlink window will appear
• Type in or Paste the URL you want to link to.

Another way to link externally:

• Copy the URL of the site you are linking to
• Paste into the body of the page 
• Highlight the URL
  
   
  
• Re-type the text that you want to appear as the Link.
  
  

Linking a PDF or other document

Before you link to a pdf, you must Upload the document to your PDFs folder. Learn how to Upload

• Select or highlight desired text
• Click the Link button
  
  
  
  
• Select the Internal tab along the top of the window.
• Navigate to your department's PDFs folder
• Click the checkbox next to the file name 
• In the Target drop-down menu, select New Window
• Click OK

Creating E-mail Links

• Type in or Paste the e-mail address into your page.
  
   
  
  
• The CMS will recognize it as an e-mail address and automatically make it a link.
  
  webmaster@utoledo.edu