deepdiver
Campaign Veteran
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When people post really long links making it necessary to scroll side to side even on a widescreen monitor to read every other post on the page it drives me nuts. So, I thought I might throw out for those who don't know how to do it, how to post those links with text to click on instead of a really long url besides using tinyurl.com to shorten them.
The method I use is really pretty and works on pretty much any forum (and I know there are a lot of other people on here much more knowledgable than me about this stuff who will offer other info about this):
Type:
CUT AND PASTE YOUR LINK HERE]Type the text you want to be clicked on to get to your link here
Then it looks like this for example:
OCDO homepage
When you hit the "preview" button at the bottom right of the posting window, the text you typed will turn blue, the coding will disappear, and you can test your link in the preview window.
There may be other ways to do it on WowBB and I hope other will chime in with info.
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When people post really long links making it necessary to scroll side to side even on a widescreen monitor to read every other post on the page it drives me nuts. So, I thought I might throw out for those who don't know how to do it, how to post those links with text to click on instead of a really long url besides using tinyurl.com to shorten them.
The method I use is really pretty and works on pretty much any forum (and I know there are a lot of other people on here much more knowledgable than me about this stuff who will offer other info about this):
Type:
CUT AND PASTE YOUR LINK HERE]Type the text you want to be clicked on to get to your link here
Then it looks like this for example:
OCDO homepage
When you hit the "preview" button at the bottom right of the posting window, the text you typed will turn blue, the coding will disappear, and you can test your link in the preview window.
There may be other ways to do it on WowBB and I hope other will chime in with info.
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