LymeNet Flash: How to make a 'readable' and/or shortened website reference

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Posted by danq (Member # 2126) on :

Sometimes a website address is very long and complicated, like the link that would get you directly to the spot in the Lymenet library with Dr. B's guidelines (cut up here onto multiple lines so it fits in the window): http://library.lymenet.org/domino/file.nsf/
bbf2f15334c1f28585256613000317cc/
9c1ac876bb7897f5852568ec0056eb02?OpenDocument

Well, there's a way around that.

If we put in a couple of UBB codes, we can make it just like 'normal' web links that hide all that stuff and give you a name of what you're going to.

Here's the code - the red part is the code, the green parts are the particulars for your link:

[url=thewebaddresshere]what you want to display here[/url]

so for a short example, to make a link to my website
the address is: www.omsoft.com/danq/index.htm
so we would code that as:

[url=www.omsoft.com/danq/index.htm]Dan's Website[/url]

and that would come out like this:

Dan's Website

now we can do that with the Guidelines:

Dr. Burrascano's 2000 Guidelines

[This message has been edited by danq (edited 31 May 2002).]

Posted by danq (Member # 2126) on :

Posted by danq (Member # 2126) on :

for the new folks...

Posted by TX Lyme Mom (Member # 3162) on :

Dang,Thanks.

I'll come back to this one next week when I have more time to concentrate on it. I just wanted to let you know that I've seen it (glanced at it).

Thanks for pulling it back up to the top, so I'll know what to look for when I get ready to study it "at my own speed."

Posted by Cheryl (Member # 75) on :

up!

Posted by Hermsi (Member # 286) on :

Testing....

My Rash

Posted by Hermsi (Member # 286) on :

Testing!!!

My Rash

Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :

Testing..

Links for new
members

Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :

Links for new
members

Questions and
Answers

Do you get sick in stores
or buildings

Help for going into stores
or buildings

Medical Diagnostics
Lab

The Sensible Pursuit of Answers

The Complexities of Lyme
Disease

Persistance
or relapse of Lyme disease

Persistance or relapse special abstracts

Free or reduced priced
medicine

Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :

Cheryls Lyme Site

Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :

Persistence
or relapse of Lyme disease

Persistence or relapse special abstracts

Lets try to at least spell it tight in the test! Duh meeeee...

Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :

Ahhhhh...

Try again...

Lets at least try to spell it RIGHT.... not TIGHT... in the test... Double duh meeeeee...

Posted by Tincup (Member # 5829) on :

Links for new
members

Posted by danq (Member # 2126) on :

For all the new folks

Dan

Posted by treepatrol (Member # 4117) on :

YummyintheTummy

Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :

Thanks dan! That's easier than I thought!

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oops!
Lymetutu

Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :

up

Posted by danq (Member # 2126) on :

Posted by SentByHim (Member # 3998) on :

Danq,

Why can't I get this to work in an e-mail even if I have HTML access?? I use mozilla as a browser and mail composer, I have a screen where I can see all the HTML code in the e mail it looks like this:

http-equiv="content-type">

I figured it should have been easy but then I couldn't do it so now it's bugging me, any help??

Thanks

James

Posted by danq (Member # 2126) on :

You can't get it to work in your email because what I've shown in the original post here isn't HTML - it's "UBB code", specific to some bulletin boards.

The HTML equivalent is:

<a href="www.yourplace.here">Your Website Name</a>

Dan

[This message has been edited by danq (edited 21 June 2004).]

Posted by charlie (Member # 25) on :

up

Posted by charlie (Member # 25) on :

you can also do this by hitting the url button under the message posting window and following instructions in the pop up windows.