Blue dot arrow in box VS NO blue dot arrow in box. Explain, please!

Question

WHAT I SEE IN SAFARI:
Some pages have the "Return to Main Site Menu" text line IN A BOX, but some other pages have that text line NOT IN A BOX. Specifically:
"Photos — Past" has "Return to Site Menu" IN A BOX.
"Photos — Present" has "Return to Site Menu" NOT IN A BOX.
BUT WHAT I SEE IN IWEB: (First of all, in iWeb I formatted all of those R.T.M.S.M. text lines in a box because all text has to be surrounded by a box. Now then:)
In iWeb, I see:
In the page "Photos — Past" the text line (R.T.M.S.M.) is inside a simple box with nothing else on the box.
But when I look at "Photos — Present," the box around the text line has a little curved white arrow in a BLUE dot at the bottom right of the text box.
So here is my ad hoc analytical equation (Remember it's AD HOC.)
Blue dot arrow in iWeb = No box surrounds text line in Safari
No blue dot arrow in iWeb = Box surrounds text line in Sarafi
NOW THEN:
I understand the simple causal relationships, but what I would like to understand is:
1. Beyond the absence or presence of a box around a text line in Safari, what is the difference between a box with a blue dot arrow and a box without a blue dot arrow? Beyond this visual difference in Safari, is there a functional difference which can come back and affect me later on in some way?
2. What did I do differently in iWeb to create a blue dot arrow in some cases and no blue dot arrow in other cases? My memory does not record HOW I made a text line into a hyperlink! Holy smoke, that's a fine line! All I recall is that I selected the text line and hit the hyperlink button in the Link Inspector! Oh-- ok in the first cases I think I put the boxed text inside another box I created. In other words, a box inside another box, and then all of it selected for hyperlinkage. Oh... is that it? <gulp> But I don't remember which is which, and I would have to re-create it on a new practice page.
Thank you in advance for shedding any light on this, because it is REALLY bewildering me. Is it ONLY a matter of boxes around a text line? Or more?
Lorna in Southern California

Answer 1

James,
I am impressed with your easy, friendly and mostly, useful replies for many of us....well...newer types!
Your response here to Lorna has answered a question I had not yet formulated....you see...when I started to build my post-"Last Rites 35 Year Reunion" web site (an old age clue!...), I did not realize that when published, the little blue circles disappeared!!!...so... I have learned and continue to do so.
I have spent the past 3 months (in spare time...I work...) organizing the resultant photos from that two day reunion event.
iWeb started me on this path, and my site (http://web.mac.com/larrycook1/iWeb/Cooksite-1/Welcome.html) has many of the issues & challenges you and others have discussed and counselled over that time....unfortunately, I lose the 'threads' of help...so I apologize for interjecting here...I was not sure where I could get "in".
1. The photos on my web are working ok.
2. I have three slide shows created in (Apple) Keynote transposed into QT Pro (7) into .mov & dragged onto three separate web pages.
The first two, "Faces" & "Potpourri" pages show, but the audio wouldn't play so I had to drag in audio separately....then instruct people to push the two buttons to get the 'full monty" effect...a work around, since I have given up trying to solve it....and there is so much else to do in life...
I read your comments about isquint and created a Mp4 from the QT Pro movie...it looks ok in iWeb but ....now
I cannot get the iweb to publish...get error messages like 'can't save the media......movie'.
Since I am low tech...I cannot understand what is going on or how to fix this.
If I try to publish to a folder, will it replace what is in there now or will it just build up...it is not clear for me.
3. I have no idea if purhaps I have too much memory in my site for the movies to be working properly....or am I corrupted?
All & any suggestions welcome. If the above have been answered elswhere, ... could you send me a link?
thanks,
Larry
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