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Hi,

I've added a 'Downloads' page to allow students to pick up various articles I think might be useful to them. As this will expand over time, I've made different subject headings on the page to keep it a bit organised. To make it even easier I thought I would set page 'anchor points' so; click on SUBJECT, you jump down the page to SUBJECT section. Click on 'TOP OF PAGE' you jump back up.

It shouldn't be rocket science, I know, but I'm just not getting it to work. Can any kind person out there give me a step-by-step guide to making this happen.

Thanks

Answers from fellow members and edublogs support

What is your edublogs address?

for what it's worth, I've never seen such in WP.com. It is possible to do lateral jumps, which I use instead, a combination of sidebar and links to subject specific posts, all of which are indexed on a static page.

Karen - Thanks for your interest. http://randomword.edublogs.org

The blog is for a media course in Scotland. 17-35+ ages, doing a first year at college with the aim of retraining or accessing a degree level course at University. Early days, and the competition - MySpace, YouTube, etc - have way cooler stuff than I can offer. Still... I'm hoping easy access to research and some more challenging material might be enough to capture some hearts and minds.

The 'Downloads' page is a on a Tab, top left of the 'post' area. I've put in a menu of the Headings that I want to link to. However, everytime I try to place an anchor I just get an error or it jumps me back to the 'Dashboard' page. Any suggest gratefully received.

Cheers
Dave

cerebraloddjobs - It's just the same idea that you see on web pages where a 'menu' list has hyperlinks that jump you down the page to the topic you want. There is a wee 'anchor' button next to the 'Make link...' / 'Break link...' buttons on the text editor toolbar. I'm sure it's very simple to fix, when you know...

Regards
dave

http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=1219#post-6292

[On your forum profile, if you add your edublog to it, then your user name is clickable to your main blog.]

cerebraloddjobs - Thanks for that. Sorted and working beautifully. I had tried the anchor label with '#', but I wasn't including the complete URL. It's easy when you know how! :-)

Cheers
dave

Glad that worked. I'll have to try it out on some longer posts.

coding for anchor points (jump from top of post to some other section in the post).

to jump from here
<a href="#Part_I"> Part I </a> starts below this point

to here
<a name="Part_I">Part I</a> starts here

NB: from has the #title

to has the name="title" (no #)

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/linking/_A_NAME.html

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