Cycling UK Forum

The problem is, of course, that if someone types the bits to make this happens, it happens.

But here's a screen print (click on the picture to make it legible)


And how it's done...

Click the 'URL' button on the top of the post window


Place your cursor between the first 'url' and ] then type '=' and copy in the web address so that it looks like


The place your cursor between the ][ and type the word you want to show in the text ('this' in my example)

here

I think I've got it.

Thanks Vorpal
and a Happy New Year to You.

Hi again.
If I do it correctly, it will work and you won't see how it's done. Therefore I'll do it correctly and save a screenshot before I press submit.

Here'a a link to Wiggle like this:
Wiggle


Here's the screenshot of wot I rote.
Click on it for a bigger view.


Hope that helps!

colin54 wrote:[url]retrogrouch.blogspot.co.uk[/url]

That's not an URL anyway

The point of the URL system was to give a way of quoting an Internet address that defined not only where the service is, but also what kind of service it is, and therefore how to communicate with it.

retrogrouch.blogspot.co.uk is only the location of a server, but it could run mail services, file transfer (FTP), or loads of other things. That's the format of address that was used before URLs.

To make a Web address it into a uniform resource locator (URL), you have to say that it's a Web (HTTP) service, thus:

http://retrogrouch.blogspot.co.uk/

or, for file transfer if the server runs that:

ftp://retrogrouch.blogspot.co.uk/

So the forum software is perfectly right. If you don't give an URL when it asks for one, you don't get a working link