A Web page without links seems wrong. The whole point and reason for the name of the World Wide Web is that the pages are joined together by a web of links between pages.
Links to other pages on the same site
To create your first link open page2.html in your editor and add a new paragraph on the end:
<p>This paragraph contains <a href="first.html">my first link</a> to another page.</p>
Save the file and look at it in your browser. Click on the link.
A link is created using the A tag (meaning anchor for reasons that don't matter). Inside the opening A tag is an attribute HREF. This tells the browser where the other page is.
Try adding a link in first.html which lets you click back to page2.html.
Links to pages on other sites
These work the same way but you need to tell the Web browser where the pages "live". You do this by providing the page location as it shows in a Web browser. For example, http://www.yourwebskills.com/contents.php. The last bit is the page itself. The first bit tells the browser to use Hypertext Transfer Protocol because this is a Web page. The bit in the middle is the name of the server which contains the Web page. Together these bits are enough for the Web browser to find the server and ask for the page:
<p>This paragraph contains <a href="http://www.yourwebskills.com/contents.php">my first link</a> to another
page on a different server.</p>
Links which open in new pages
On the whole opening a new window tends to annoy users. Sometimes it might be worth that risk:
<p>This link <a href="http://www.yourwebskills.com/contents.php" target="_blank">opens in a new window</a>.</p>
The TARGET attribute tells the browser to open a new window or tab. In the past there have been other possible targets but you should not use these now.
