Okay, this is maybe for slightly more advanced posting, but for those that want to either post or embed in your post links and then find that you can't because of the URL breaking down in the post; try TinyURL: www.tinyurl.com - it won't work all of the time, however, something like this: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... =UTF8&z=16 turn into this: http://tinyurl.com/c2jdlb
Making it much easier to post or embed.
TinyUrl
Try this method then.
Difficult to outline without invoking protocol and hiding it so here goes:
We want to make this:
Zeiss products
We do it by making this:
1url=http://www.meditec.zeiss.com 2Zeissproducts1/url2
Substitute 1 for [
Substitute 2 for ]
Red is your http address
Green is the text you want to say as the link
This might make no sense, but worth a try!
Difficult to outline without invoking protocol and hiding it so here goes:
We want to make this:
Zeiss products
We do it by making this:
1url=http://www.meditec.zeiss.com 2Zeissproducts1/url2
Substitute 1 for [
Substitute 2 for ]
Red is your http address
Green is the text you want to say as the link
This might make no sense, but worth a try!
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The Old Biddy
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, isn't that the way to create links?
Here is the code (but I lose the nice colouring)
We want to make this:
Zeiss products
We do it by making this:
You can see above that we have used the
tags, but added in after the first url "=http://www.meditec.zeiss.com"
The tiny URL is more for some really long web links, which may contain characters which mean that the forum code doesn't view the whole web link as the web link, rendering it useless (unless you copy and paste it into a browser).
We want to make this:
Zeiss products
We do it by making this:
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[url=http://www.meditec.zeiss.com]Zeissproducts[/url]Code: Select all
[url] [/url]The tiny URL is more for some really long web links, which may contain characters which mean that the forum code doesn't view the whole web link as the web link, rendering it useless (unless you copy and paste it into a browser).
Okay, this thread contains an example of what I am talking about.
Xavier posts a link which doesn't work, the full URL is:
And it appears like this:
http://www.ophsource.org/periodicals/op ... 3/abstract
Because of the brackets, it is cut short and therefore doesn't work.
Squirt it through TinyURL and you get this: http://tinyurl.com/cxzzr3 which does work.
The whole embedding it behind other words is a separate issue, but if the original link doesn't work, embedding it doesn't either. Otherwise you would get:
This, I mean, yeuch!
Where as this is nice!
Xavier posts a link which doesn't work, the full URL is:
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http://www.ophsource.org/periodicals/ophtha/article/S0161-6420(02)01167-3/abstracthttp://www.ophsource.org/periodicals/op ... 3/abstract
Because of the brackets, it is cut short and therefore doesn't work.
Squirt it through TinyURL and you get this: http://tinyurl.com/cxzzr3 which does work.
The whole embedding it behind other words is a separate issue, but if the original link doesn't work, embedding it doesn't either. Otherwise you would get:
This, I mean, yeuch!
Where as this is nice!
