make links open in new tab/window

Since I don't have a decent painting to post, I'll give you a blogging lesson to make links open in a new window. (I thank my son for teaching me!)

For blogger users, you type your posts in the 'compose' box. You make a link by highlighting a word or phrase, and click the 'link' tab in the tool bar. But this makes a link that navigates away from your blog. You want your audience to stick around a bit longer! If your readers are clever, they will right click to open links in a new tab or window. But you can easily alter your links yourself.

There is a tab for 'edit html.' Look through the text and find the area where your link is located. It will look like this:

<a href="http://emptyeasel.com/">Empty Easel</a>

Add the following code between the quotation mark and the greater than symbol.

target="_blank"

Add a space before the word target.
Now it looks like:

<a href="http://emptyeasel.com/" target="_blank">Empty Easel</a>

That's it, Fort Pitt.