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Zarathustra

Mar 2 2008, 09:13 AM

At some time, Members may find it useful to reference some material from the Internet and to cite a link to it in their post or in a reply.

There are 3 ways to do this:

1. Using the toolbar, on the AddReply page

2. Using the toolbar on the FastReply box

3. manually

Using the toolbar, on the AddReply page:

Either at the top, or bottom, of a page, click the AddReply button.
When your on the Reply page, on the toolbar, click the Insert Link icon.

This window will open.

Type, or Paste in, the URL of the site you want to link to, and click the OK button.

That will open this window.

Replace "Visit My Website", with what you want the link to say, then click the OK button.

The example used here will be displayed in the reply window, like this:

CODE

[url=http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html]Avast Anti-virus[/url]

When you post your message, it will look like this:

Avast Anti-virus

Using the toolbar on the FastReply box:

At the bottom of a page, click the FastReply button.
On the toolbar, click the Insert Link icon.

This window will open.

Type, or Paste in, the URL of the site you want to link to, and click the OK button.

That will open this window.

Replace "Visit My Website", with what you want the link to say, then click the OK button.

The example used here will be displayed in the reply window, like this:

CODE

[url=http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html]Avast Anti-virus[/url]

When you post your message, it will look like this:
Avast Anti-virus

Manually:

When typing your post, you would use the URL tags.

CODE

[url=http://THE URL TO YOUR LINK]WHAT YOU WANT THE LINK TO SAY[/url]

So, if I were to use the same example, as above.

CODE

[url=http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html]Avast Anti-virus[/url]

When the post it made, it would look like this.
Avast Anti-virus

If you want to practice posting links, go to the Tests and Scribbles forum, and play around.
That's what it's there for, and if anyone sees you having troubles, they'll try to help you out.

[Posted here (with modifications) with the kind permission of Tg1911 at BleepingComputer.com]

unjustjohn

Mar 3 2008, 06:49 AM

Zarathusta,

Thanks so much for this lesson.
And a special thanks for letting me know hwere I can go to practice these techniques before I try them out here at TV.

I would be deeply sadden if I were to attempt them here first and ended up messing up this site. LOL

Just my luck I would make things so bad by my ineptitude that I would give everyone some sort of virus. Then everyone would then be sitting at their computers scratching their heads because of my infecteous inability to follow directions. LOL

I'll go over to Tests and Scribbles to where they may be more prepared for John's Jinx. LOL

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