Topic: How to make a 'readable' and/or shortened website reference
danq
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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:
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danq
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SentByHim
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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
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danq
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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.
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charlie
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you can also do this by hitting the url button under the message posting window and following instructions in the pop up windows.
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