Opening up links in a new window

The next item on my list of topics. We've touch on this a tad bit, with the pop up windows. There is the classic method, using the "target" attribute of the anchor tag.

a href="http://whatever.com" target="_blank" <-- opens the link in a brand new browser.

But, you can control what parts of the browser you want to use in your new window. Take a look at this article:

Popup Tutor

(if you clicked on this, you got a new browser, ie. _blank was the target)