No problem, Glenda, glad to help out. Your problem was that you entered your active link as follows:

<:www.nb.net/~alanb/index.htm>

That form is not syntactically complete for an active link. You should have entered:

<a href="www.nb.net/~alanb/index.htm">your underlined text</a>

or if you wanted to provide a new window for the convenience of the user, you could have used:

<a target="_new" href="www.nb.net/~alanb/index.htm">your underlined text</a>

Joe Offer has collected a lot of good HTML technical advice in a PermaThread. You might find it helpful.

      - Mark