Suggested by HoustonCH73

If you want to add a url to your post so others can find a site or page you are referring to, the code you need to use to construct is it is real easy to use. You can click on the 'URL' grey button at the top of the post editor to start off, or if you are using quick reply you can just insert the code:

Code:

[url=http://roadstarclinic.com]Link Title[/url]

In the code above, you would replace the http://roadstarclinic.com with the url you copied from your browser. The 'Link Title' is the text that will show in your post, the rest will be hidden in the html code. So the code above produces this:

Link Title

You can also do this:

Code:

[url]http://roadstarclinic.com[/url]

In this case the url is both the text and linking code because I did not put the link url inside the first bracket for this forum to use to create the hidden part. So it uses the title for both parts (the displayed text and the hidden url/address of the other site). This is what a lot of us are doing right now for short urls like the one I used above. That way of creating a link ends up looking like this:

http://roadstarclinic.com

In some cases we need to post extraordinarily long urls. A good example is an ebay link, or an amazon link. Those links are so long that they sometimes break our page layout here and a mod has to jump in and make some corrections.

In those cases it is real important to create the link the first way. Put the url inside the first set of square brackets (after an = sign) so it can be hidden in the html. Like this:

Code:

[url=http://roadstarclinic.com]

Then put in the title you want to the link to have:

Code:

[url=http://roadstarclinic.com]Road Star Clinic

Then add the closing link code:

Code:

[url=http://roadstarclinic.com]Road Star Clinic[/url]

Which then creates this:

Road Star Clinic

The link is not shown at all!! Its completely embedded into the html (code) of the page you are looking at. All the other users will see is the title that you put in. This simple trick makes posts with those really long url's a lot easier to read, and keeps things a little tidier.

Last trick, always start the url with http:// . If you copy it from the address field of your browser when you are on the page you want to link to it will always have that in it.