Dynamic link to an external site?

Hi There
Has anyone any ideas where I'm going wrong here, it seems like it should be easy to me but all the settings I've tried don't make any difference.
I'm using Dreamweaver CS3 on Mac running Snow Leopard and I've set up a phpMyAdmin database.
One of the database fields called 'website' contains a list of stockists website addresses. I want to have a dynamic text link that opens up the stockists website in a new window when the text is clicked. So I'm doing this...
<a href="<?php echo $row_recordset1['website']; ?>">CLICK HERE</a>
This opens up a new window but instead of forwarding to the chosen website e.g. www.external.com
It keeps my existing website url at the front of the link so I'm getting something like...
http://www.mysite.com/www.external.com
Anybody any ideas how I can tell the link to lose the bit at the front?
Many Thanks

Hi
Thanks a lot for your reply, I wanted to open the external site in a new window and hence I have the following path as my URL
javascript:window.open('http://#COL09#','name','height=400,width=800');
This opens the oracle site in a new window , but at the same time my apex browser renders a blank page with [object Window] printed on the browser window.
Can you please tell me what is happening.
Thanks.

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