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Ok... I'm showing how little I know here but that's ok! I'd love it if someone could tell me how to make a link look like just one word instead of a heap of words and code. If someone knows how to do this and can spare the time to tell me I would looooove to know!

Thanks very much!

oxoxxoxo

http://www.raw-pleasure.com.au/ (http://www.raw-pleasure.com.au/)

vs

RAW! (http://www.raw-pleasure.com.au/)


Yep that's it.  If you press the "quote" button you'll be able to see the difference in how it was written.

But basically it is:

[ url ]http://www.raw-pleasure.com.au/[ /url ]

vs

[ url=www.raw-pleasure.com.au/ ]RAW![ /url ]

But without the spaces either side of the [ ] symbols... I just put them there so it would show up as text instead of make more links!

Jen's before and after photos are here (http://www.raw-pleasure.com.au/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,71/topic,2333.msg42244#msg42244)


Trying another way to see if it works on a forum, but your way is simpler WaterBerry!!!

Yay!   I was going to try to explain it as well,  but got my head in a muddles of how to explain how you put an = sign then the address, all within square brackets... and I would have been babbling on and getting everyone else confused as well as myself!

Much easier just to show it!

That one was HTML code.  Interesting.

Love
May

Yes, the HTML code will work on some forums but not others, it all depends if the forum administrators have enabled the use of embedded HTML within posts.  The use of the forum tags is usually accepted on all forums, unless links have been disabled completely.

But if you're writing a web page, then you'd have to use the html code - because it doesn't have the forum software working behind the scenes to tell it what to do with a [ url ] tag!

is how to do the HTML tag if anyone was interested in seeing how that one was written, too.

I'm a newbie to forums - this is my first and only so I'm glad you were here with the easier method.  It fascinated me that the HTML did work, but I hear you that it wouldn't necessarily work anywhere.

Thanks WaterBerry :)

Love
May

You're most welcome!  I've uh... been using forums for longer than I can remember, although I've never ran one to see the behind the scenes php code. 

I think I learnt HTML in 1995 before there were any software programs to do it for you...   Although it has surpassed me now with the amount of new things you can do with it!

I write my own HTML in a little text thingy called PFE and I love doing it manually as it feels like I'm getting my hands dirty.  But it's the only programming language I know so I treasure it.

I learned DreamWeaver once but I hate all the unnecessary clutter it makes and prefer the old fashioned method.

Wouldn't it be amazing to see the code for the forum?  The thought of it blows me away!

Hehe, I hear you loud and clear there May!  DreamWeaver and other software like it creates so much unnecessary junk in the code!  And it's never formatted for easy reading.

I got a job once purely because I could understand HTML and debug their DreamWeaver code manually.  I'd make a point of formatting the sections I was working on in case any human ever had to go back to that piece of code - it would then be legible!  But when it comes out of that software, it is sometimes a complete nightmare to 'read', yuck.

I'd love to see the code behind a forum one day.  But since it is usually in a programming language I haven't learned, it may be difficult to understand.  I only know HTML, C, and some Java... and my knowledge of those was from first year University before I transferred out of the course :)

I've got a heap of books on Java and found a brilliant website once that taught it, but never got the time.  One day...

C I haven't even touched, but I know the name and php and all that because I was secretary to a university school of IT for 3 years.  Shame that knowing *of* something isn't enough in my case LOL

I reckon we'd follow some bits of the forum code if we saw it don't you?  It would certainly be fun to peek anyway.

How about the web code that Word generates?  That's something else isn't it?

Yes I think we would be able to follow bits of it too :)   But having to alter it to fix something?  That'd be a whole different story!

& the code that Word generates..... oh..... that just makes me laugh.

Thanks so much ladies! Now I can do it! Yippee!

xoxoxo

I did it! I did a hyperlink in my journal! You wanna see? It's right HERE (http://www.raw-pleasure.com.au/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,71/topic,2333.new/topicseen,topicseen#new)

Oh I did another one! I am a show off! Thanks again... :yahh:

xooxxo

Wow...you're all talking a foreign language!!! 

I have no idea what you're talking about and wouldn't have a clue how to do what you've all achieved above!   :huh:

Well done you clever girls!!!

x

I cant understand how to do it , so can you explain again how to do it?

To make a clickable link:

type out a link or paste one in, highlight it and click on the 'Insert Hyperlink' button. (Just below the u button so it looks like this [url ]www.raw-pleasure.com.au[ /url] but without the spaces in the url areas. I only put them there so the link would not be clickable.

Next with the first url, remove the ] and the www. then insert a =.  So it looks like this [url =raw-pleasure.com.au[/url]

Finally, at the end of the link and before the next url, insert ]whatever you want to call it[ /url] so it looks like this:

[url = raw-pleasure.com.au] raw pleasure[ /url] but without the spaces. If I remove the spaces it looks like this: raw pleasure (http://raw-pleasure.com.au)

Hope this helps!  :laugh:

xoxoxo

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