<a href="[~id~]">Link Text</a>
I am not sure your objectives:
2) redirect the browser to page 2 from page 1
-> Use a wblink or a redirect snippet (phiRedirect works well)
3) forward page 1 to page 2 (in forward the URL will still say page 1)
-> Use the sendForward api call (like is used for error pages)