10-10-2008, 03:26 PM

I have noticed that when putting in URLs in replies, the forum magically turns the text of the link in to a brief description of the link, instead of the raw URL

How does the forum software do this, and does anybody know?

10-11-2008, 06:06 PM

Good question Louishen. Is the change really necessary? http://wxx.eshop.macsales.com should be quite sufficient for most. It'll be interesting to see if the regular eshop link I typed initially turns into a promotional headline type of link.

Later: yep, sure did, so I changed a couple of the letters to what you see now.

May I add to this post by asking how one makes a url link appear just as the word here? That's a very useful function, assisting brevity.

10-11-2008, 10:35 PM

Probably never recognised that wxx stuff hughvane. Entering the macsales.com URL:-

OWC at Find the latest Performance Upgrades, Firewire and USB Hard Drives, SATA, Memory, Laptop Battery, and more at OWC

Let's see if it changed and if so it is not necessary other than raking in an advertising fee I guess?

Yep it changed it to the above!

10-12-2008, 10:24 AM

Originally Posted by hughvane

May I add to this post by asking how one makes a url link appear just as the word here? That's a very useful function, assisting brevity.

When you want to put a link use the green world button with the chain link, paste your link in the dialog. You'll get something that looks like this:

(url=http://wxb.starcraft.org/]http://wxb.starcraft.org[/url]

Change the second instance of the url to the text you want.
I had to change one of the brackets to a parenthesis to stop the resolving.