Stovebolt.com Forums The Back Office IT Short Bus HOW TO: LINK -- video *and* instructions

You know it's a link because the cursor changes to a hand with the index finger on the text.

Plain colored writing is not a link.

This is a link: https://www.stovebolt.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1465997/9-11-memorials.html

Understand how a "Link" looks in postings (see Gord's reply above).

What I don't know is how to "rename" the link to have the "name" you give it displayed, instead of the fully spelled out http... link???

Example: Refer to Peggy's question earlier for examples showing both a "named" link and the actual un-named link).

Any help to edumacate this newbie?

Thanks

test

hxxps://www.stovebolt.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1465997/9-11-memorials.html

https://www.stovebolt.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/1465997/9-11-memorials.html

The first link uses this syntax
Note where the label ("test" in this case) goes.

The second link is the same as the first one, but https is changed to hxxps. The forum software does not recognise this as a link, so it just shows the text.

The third link is a straight paste. The forum software recognises this as a link.


So, to add a label to the third case, you need to insert the url and /url in square brackets.

This is a right click and paste in the body. Or "Control + V" if you do it that way. https://www.stovebolt.com/

This is using the link generator in the full editor box, following the prompts.

You can name the link anything you want!!

BTW, when the link box pops up, the "http://" is already highlighted. All you need to do is right click to paste, and the highlighted part goes away on its own. One less step than actually having to delete it.

Also, "Control + C" for copying stuff allows you to copy at website that doesn't allow you to right click. There used to be a lot of those things around but I'm sure folks gave up trying to police it.

Gord and Mark,

Many thanks to you both on attending to my "edumacation"

Here are my "test" results:

Gord's "syntax" process My Favorite Site

Mark's "link generator" process My Favorite Site

Both "teachers" get an apple for today!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge

For those not following, Jay's video on How to create a link [youtube.com] does over it. There are a few ways to go about it but the nuts and bolts of it are there.

Following this post is a step-by-step with images.

My mouse in squeaky so I do it different ways depending on my frustration level.

In these posts here, you'll see using the link with a word or series of words, lets the reader know where the link is coming from. (See image #1) If the link is coming from Stovebolt, nothing added in that link line. (See image #2)

Knowing where the link came from helps alert the reader. Sometimes that helps in the reader finding their way back home to Stovebolt ... or we lose them for awhile.

One tip that may help when "highlighting" anything: one click on a word "selects" the word. Rapid fire click (usually 3 for me) will "select" the entire line. In the URL window, if the entire line doesn't seem to "select," just try the rapid fire click, then control-c.

Of course, you can always drag the mouse curser to get what you are wanting. Sometimes for me, doing it that way, I leave off the first number or letter. See mouse issues above.

This seems to be my preferred method unless one click does it. I think that stems from my wife sleeping close by to where my laptop sits. I don't want to wake her up by being a mad clicker.

As you all know that is not my isssue, I post a lot of links but I have not been able to post the daily driver.