short links not working
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Topic: short links not working
Posted By: deks
Subject: short links not working
Date Posted: 03 January 2012 at 8:35pm
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please excuse my lack of tec knowledge I seem to have a problem user short links as in car parts in stead of typing in www.carparts.whatever a friend has tried to help but says it wont work on the forum or in pm's but says it does on his forum which is webwizz aswell any suggestions as to what setting I need to alter thanks and agian sorry for lack of knowledge |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 04 January 2012 at 8:39am
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What do you mean by 'short links'? ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 04 January 2012 at 11:36am
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I *think* he means using anchor text, instead of the actual URL. If this is what you mean, you should do this, without the *
------------- S2H.co.uk - http://www.s2h.co.uk/wwf/" rel="nofollow - WebWiz Mods and Skins For support on my mods + skins, please use http://www.s2h.co.uk/forum/" rel="nofollow - my forum . |
Posted By: billd3
Date Posted: 04 January 2012 at 1:14pm
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So it's called anchor text in some communities? Interesting - learned something new today, it's going to be a very good day. I call it hyperlinks, can't say if that's proper or not, I think MS Word does as well, as in if you make a single word or two link to a site/web site. http://theamcforum.com/forum" rel="nofollow - FORUM for example ------------- BillD http://theamcpages.com http://theamcforum.com |
Posted By: deks
Date Posted: 04 January 2012 at 4:07pm
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yes thats what I mean how to make a single word link somehwere a friend has told me how to though I cant work that out but he put some up that didnt go to where they were supposed to not sure if I have a setting in forum setup that is wrong but we could see anything |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 04 January 2012 at 4:21pm
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Make sure you have links enabled for the group in your admin area. You can then use the  button. You highlight the text you want as the link, then click this button, fill in your hyperlink in the popup window, and when you click 'OK' the window will close and apply your link to the highlighted text.You would not be able to test this in this forum though as the Newbie group you are in does not have permission to create links. You need to have 10 points or above to create links in this forum. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 04 January 2012 at 7:21pm
FYI, Hyperlink is the name for the link as a whole. Anchor text is the name of just the displayed text part of the link, eg in your example, the anchor text is "forum". And obviously, you also have the URL which is the page you are linking to. ------------- S2H.co.uk - http://www.s2h.co.uk/wwf/" rel="nofollow - WebWiz Mods and Skins For support on my mods + skins, please use http://www.s2h.co.uk/forum/" rel="nofollow - my forum . |
billd3 wrote:Posted By: deks
Date Posted: 04 January 2012 at 7:46pm
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ok here is the problem if I add a web address it shows fine but if we try the "anchor text" it just shows 404 error so we have followed the advice given with [url] way this is what shows http://%3ca%20href=/ - jog">http:// http://www.nissanjukeownersclub.com/ - jog the web address is nissanjukeownersclub.com the link word is jog |
Posted By: deks
Date Posted: 04 January 2012 at 10:23pm
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Sorted now thank you someone explained in termanology I understood thanks for the help |