Tutorial -- hyperlinks, or URL addresses

[Sombeech]

Just some "By the way" facts here. :cool2:

Some of those web links can have a TON of characters in them, making them stretch horizontally all the way across the page. Unfortunately, this will make everybody scroll from left to right to read any reply made on the same page -- just like you're doing now! :bootyshake:

Let's say you're searching Cabela's site, you find something cool, and you want to tell everybody about it. You copy and paste the URL, but it ends up being about 200 characters long. :eek2: The Solution?


The original address
http://shopping.yahoo.com/b:Digital%20Camera%20Buying%20Guide:784708114;_ylt =Asgio.ZRkKl64El5iQkiA2O8cDMB

But add the at the end, type some text like Camera, and end it with ( at the front, a )

So, as you are typing it, it looks like this:

Cool Camera (http://shopping.yahoo.com/b:Digital%20Camera%20Buying%20Guide:784708114;_ylt =Asgio.ZRkKl64El5iQkiA2O8cDMB)

...and appears like this once you've posted: Cool Camera (http://shopping.yahoo.com/b:Digital%20Camera%20Buying%20Guide:784708114;_ylt =Asgio.ZRkKl64El5iQkiA2O8cDMB;_ylu=X3oDMTBwN3BqYXA 5BF9zAzAEc2VjA2J1eWluZ2d1aWRlcHJvbW8-)

Move your mouse over the phrase "Cool Camera" above, and you will see it's a link. To make it more visible as a link, try adding the underline effect, or even the bold. It could appear like this: Cool Camera (http://shopping.yahoo.com/b:Digital%20Camera%20Buying%20Guide:784708114;_ylt =Asgio.ZRkKl64El5iQkiA2O8cDMB;_ylu=X3oDMTBwN3BqYXA 5BF9zAzAEc2VjA2J1eWluZ2d1aWRlcHJvbW8-)






Another thing you will want to avoid is pasting the website next to another symbol, like parenthesis, or quotes. See the examples below:

(http://uutah.com/forum/index.php) will not be a hyperlink unless there is a space between the parenthesis like this:
( http://uutah.com/forum/index.php ) The same thing happens with a comma after the address, semi colon, and so forth.






Feel free to reply with any other tips that can help us. Thanks. :2thumbs:

[Alex]

Guilty as charged, sorry bud.

Will do them the right way from now on :five:

[KillEmAll]

Is there a global setting to show all links differently? They look the same as normal text, and you have to manually make it look different.

[Sombeech]

Is there a global setting to show all links differently? They look the same as normal text, and you have to manually make it look different.

You mean a setting that would highlight or underline a link automatically? I'm not sure. That would be nice though.

[stefan]

Is there a global setting to show all links differently? They look the same as normal text, and you have to manually make it look different.

You mean a setting that would highlight or underline a link automatically? I'm not sure. That would be nice though.

yeah, my take of his comment is that it would be nice to have a universal "coloring" and/or "style" (like underline) to indicate hyperlinks, yes, that would occur automatically, but could be overridden by the use of additional settings.

currently it seems the universal (global) setting is that if the cursor passes over the link, it turns white. but i agree that it should be something identifying it without the cursor. you could use a nice color like a blue, something that goes with the gray background, something that stands out, and is a cool color. the combination of color and underlining seems a standard format, but i don't think the underlining is necessary, you could do COLOR + BOLD, that would look nice. when there is a universal setting, within no time people learn to recognize it.

anyone have other suggestions?

i suppose it would simply require modifying how the [url] environment is defined, so that it would include these settings. i am curious how easy this is to do.

some possibilities:


uutah (http://uutah.com/forum/index.php)

uutah (http://uutah.com/forum/index.php)

uutah (http://uutah.com/forum/index.php)

uutah (http://uutah.com/forum/index.php)

uutah (http://uutah.com/forum/index.php)

uutah (http://uutah.com/forum/index.php)

uutah (http://uutah.com/forum/index.php)

uutah (http://uutah.com/forum/index.php)

i think this last color is my fav :2thumbs:

so, like, if you want to see big hair (http://uutah.com/forum/files/bst_605__6_.jpg), you've come to the right place

[accadacca]

I agree that a color scheme would help some. However, I think things are ok for most links. All you have to do is paste a valid link and it underlines it automatically: http://www.google.com

You don't need to use the URL tag:
link here

Examples with and without:

With the Url tags: http://www.google.com

Without Url tag: http://www.google.com

If you simply paste the link and skip the url tags it makes the link very easy to identify. :five:

[stefan]

I agree that a color scheme would help some. However, I think things are ok for most links. All you have to do is paste a valid link and it underlines it automatically

true, so unless there somehow is a conflict, if you change the [url] and/or http://uutah.com/forum/index.php (] environment, this would apply to the context in which someone wishes to emphasize the url or hypertext, whereas if you just paste the link in, it would appear as text, unless the cursor passes over it. this seems to me a very nice setup/mixture. it would just cut down on the work, if someone wants the hypertext/url emphasized, but doesn't want to take the time to do it. if they do, they have that option too.

:five:

so for example it would be cool if pasting just did [url) whereas if i wanted to emphasize the url it would look like http://uutah.com/forum/index.php and similarly for uutah (http://uutah.com/forum/index.php) in hypertext.