Shrinking Links

[jagman]

Thomas...

I've tried several times to figure out how to shrink and retitle links to other sites (including searches on this website).

For example... change

"check out www dot (insert) dot com" to "check out this"

The idea is to make it so when you click on this it links to the previously mentioned website.


Thanks!!!!!!

BTW... you may want to make this a sticky... or not.

edit by moderator to show options so you can use the 'modify' button to see the code for doing the hyperlink

Hyperlink to wwwdot(insert dot) com

[ThomasW]

There are 2 easy ways to shorten (truncate) links.

1) Use tinyurl.com/ this is just like www.com
2) Make a true hyperlink like this UBB code for making a hyperlink

[jagman]

Thank you .

[Darren]

What you are describing is the creation of a hyperlink. I don't believe the site supports HTML so the TinyUrl Thomas suggests shortens the hyperlink but I don't believe it allows you to create a true hyperlink.

A true hyperlink is <a href=www.blah.com>Visit Blah</a> and you only see "Visit Blah" and it takes you to Blah.com when clicked. Some sites allow it through different means but I haven't seen those options enabled here...just standard link text that is processed into a hyperlink dynamically.

[jagman]

I tried doing a shrunken link in an e-mail... but it didn't work... so I'll try it here:

check out this

[jagman]

[Darren]

Cool, I didn't know the site supported using the assignment inside the [ url ] tag.

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