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deks 
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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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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 04 January 2012 at 8:39am |
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What do you mean by 'short links'?
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Scotty32
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Posted: 04 January 2012 at 11:36am |
I *think* he means using anchor text, instead of the actual URL. If this is what you mean, you should do this, without the *
[*url=http://www.car-parts.whatever]car parts[/url*] |
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billd3
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Posted: 04 January 2012 at 1:14pm |
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. FORUMfor example
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deks
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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
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 04 January 2012 at 4:21pm |
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.
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Posted: 04 January 2012 at 7:21pm |
 billd3 wrote:
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.
FORUM
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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.
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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
Edited by deks - 04 January 2012 at 8:36pm
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