a little question for me please?.... Being the complete computer dunce i am, Could someone please explain how i set up a link to an article i think others might enjoy. Any help would be very much appreciated.
Kirri
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Options:
1)Copy it from the URL line to the body of message. It's that simple.
Example: http://www.bigclosetr.us/topshelf/filter/tips
2)Go to the link I provided. It has helpful and useful html tags and tips, including how to set a link.
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That's not too hard but ...
... how do you link to something by embedding it in another word? Like you can write "Check this here" where 'here' is the link to the reference.
Robi
I did provide the link
It is the very first line there, in the table. Right in the middle of the page.
Is it that hard to follow the second option before asking a question answered by it?
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Where you can fool around like you want to and most you get is some bemused good ribbing!
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What's a URL?
OK, now that you have stopped laughing and gotten back in your chair, it was not that long ago that I did not know what a URL was. Now finally after a few years of duncing around I not only know what a URL is but how to highlight it. I always wash mine when I am done with it! :)
Anyhow, if I find something that is not on BCTS and I want to share it, I highlight it by left clicking on it just once. The whole line of characters should turn blue. Now you right click on it and a drop down menu will um "drop down". Select copy and then go over to BCTS and open a window for a reply, or a blog or what ever.
Left click in that window to make sure that you have a cursor in there, and then right click and select "Paste". There you have it, a proper link to your beloved pearl of wisdom. :)
From one non "puter person to another, really, your machine will not explode! I think. :)
Khadijah
Thanks Gwen!!
You made me smile, and you also made it possible for me to not go through explaining the process in all the tedious details! :)
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what I have tried
several times I tried to use the link tool at the top of the comment block but it did not work for me, than someone with access corrected one of my links performed as just stated in the prior comments so I looked to see what was done.
the following string replaced some words in the instruction created by the link tool (looks like a blue globe)
" target="_blank"> your text here
replaced
" title=" your text here ">
The last four symbols remain the same
HTML syntax
To embed a link you start with:
<a href="
after the quote paste the url, being sure it starts with "http://", then continue with:
">
After the >, type the text you want to be visible and finish with:
</a>
To Illustrate here is the syntax for one of my favorite websites:
<a href="http://www.heartlandconcerts.org">Heartland Concerts</a>
If you do it right then you will see the link to Heartland Concerts appear in the sentence like this.
Thanks everyone
your help was much appreciated.
Kirri
It's actually more difficult
It's actually more difficult to answer your question than it is to do, because of the fact that HTML code is legal in comments, so will be performed (and thereby rendered invisible) without elaborate subterfuge.
here's one way to do it:
At the top of the comment screen is a little row of mystic symbols.
If you look carefully, you can see that the eleventh and twelfth of these are < and >
After entering a bit of HTML, simply go back and replace every one of these "angle brackets" (or "greater than" and "less than" signs) by highlighting it and clicking on the corresponding mystical symbol.
Of course, one could also type these "escape sequences" in directly, but where's the fun in that?
Here's what a single instantiation of this technique looks like in real life:
On the other hand, third from the end of those mystic symbols is a little globe (or something like a globe:
). If you click on this symbol, a little dialogue will pop up and ask for two things: A web address (called a "link ref" in the dialogue), and a title text (that's the bit what will be visible in a tooltip one might see by hovering your mouse pointer over the link). When you've finished, simply click on "OK" and you're almost done. Your link will be created and the cursor placed where you must enter the text you want to appear on the actual screen, which can be a little confusing, but there you go. If you forget this step, your link will be created but no one will be able to see or use it.
Here's a sample created with the "globe:"
This bit filled in after clicking the OK button
Although the last step is a little difficult to understand, once done a couple of times it becomes almost automatic, and keeps all those nasty bits of HTML code properly tucked away where you might modestly forget about them. No sense sullying one's mind with smutty HTML code and naughty escape sequences if one can decently help it.
I highly recommend that we all become familiar with what those symbols do, as they many of them do quite useful things in the twinkling of an eye what would take longer simply typing them by hand, even if you knew how to do it.
It's perfectly safe to experiment with these little buttons (provided at great expense and trouble by site management, bless them) and look at their effects using Preview, and as long as one navigates away from the experimental reply or post before actually posting, no harm's done then, is it?
Cheers,
Liobhan
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Cheers,
Liobhan