Using a computer reference link
I am an old man, and what that means is that I don't have to be a computer expert, like those younger ones who grew up with computers and learned all about them in school. (We had no computers in 1900!)
Sooooooooooo, that makes it copa-setic for me to ask any and all questions I like!
Will someone tell me how to insert a linked page in text. I know how to copy/paste a web site already . I want to know how to link it by entering "here" or some other descriptive word. I see this done all the time especially by Jacob in his posts.
Thank you in advance for your kind help!!
Sooooooooooo, that makes it copa-setic for me to ask any and all questions I like!
Will someone tell me how to insert a linked page in text. I know how to copy/paste a web site already . I want to know how to link it by entering "here" or some other descriptive word. I see this done all the time especially by Jacob in his posts.
Thank you in advance for your kind help!!
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Here is an
<a href="http://abc.com">example</a>
of it.
You'd put all this on the same line without the line breaks.
Here is an example of it.
To show an picture, use
<img src="http://whatever.org/somepicture.jpg">
All on the same line.
And to make lists use
<ul>
<li> Apple
<li> Orange
<li> Banana
</ul>
If you want a numbered list, use ol instead of ul.
Apple
Orange
Banana
code, blockquote, em, and strong ... all follow this <em> pattern</em> ... like pattern; em for emphasis.
Make sure not to leave spaces between < > and the commands.
<a href="http://abc.com">example</a>
of it.
You'd put all this on the same line without the line breaks.
Here is an example of it.
To show an picture, use
<img src="http://whatever.org/somepicture.jpg">
All on the same line.
And to make lists use
<ul>
<li> Apple
<li> Orange
<li> Banana
</ul>
If you want a numbered list, use ol instead of ul.
Apple
Orange
Banana
code, blockquote, em, and strong ... all follow this <em> pattern</em> ... like pattern; em for emphasis.
Make sure not to leave spaces between < > and the commands.
Either everyone else knows this like the back of their hand, or they are like me and are dancing around it:-)
No one else has jumped in?
So how do you compress all that code to just the one word you want to use for the link? In your example, you used the word
"example".
example
I copied your work verbatim. I will post and see what we get!
No one else has jumped in?
So how do you compress all that code to just the one word you want to use for the link? In your example, you used the word
"example".
example
I copied your work verbatim. I will post and see what we get!
javascript:void(location.href='http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url='+enc ... tion.href))
found this thing--trying it out. Not sure I really need to know how to do this!
*I suspected there might be some way real easy to do it--
maybe the tinyURL thing will do what I need.
found this thing--trying it out. Not sure I really need to know how to do this!
*I suspected there might be some way real easy to do it--
maybe the tinyURL thing will do what I need.
You can practice this on your own computer. Just type the codes in a text editor like Notepad (on the PC) and save the result as a file with .htm or .html extension. (example: test.htm)
If you click on this file it will open in your webbrowser and you'll see the result.
I guess most of us have created webpages before. Don't worry, it's not as difficult as it looks and you only need a handful of codes for this forum.
If you click on this file it will open in your webbrowser and you'll see the result.
I guess most of us have created webpages before. Don't worry, it's not as difficult as it looks and you only need a handful of codes for this forum.
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@HSpencer - Nah, this [coding] is about as easy as it can get---no way around it.
Tinyurl is useful for reducing a really long url into a short, but humanly hard to read, url. You still need the html codes for the tinyurl's to work though. As long as the url is copied&pasted correctly, there's no need to use tinyurl.
Tinyurl is useful for reducing a really long url into a short, but humanly hard to read, url. You still need the html codes for the tinyurl's to work though. As long as the url is copied&pasted correctly, there's no need to use tinyurl.