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Iflyfish
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For the good of the order. How To Create A Short Link
While reading this forum I have noticed that people often post lengthy links that get broken and don't work. There is a very simple solution to this.
http://tinyurl.com/create.php
You simply copy and paste your long link to this site and it automaticaly translates your long link into a tiny one.
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[Edited on 7-29-2010 by Iflyfish]
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Or you simply use the tool here intended for inputting links:
Click this button: 
...and it'll wrap your link with the [url ] and [ /url] brackets (minus the spaces) so that the entire link works.
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Click this button: |
That's the button I always use.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BMG
| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaNomad
Click this button: |
That's the button I always use. |
That puppy is ADORABLE
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Iflyfish
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BajaNomad, you are the absolute bomb. Nice button, really nice button. Now let's play button, button, where is the button??
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DianaT
That puppy is ADORABLE |
Yeah, but what puppy isn't as adorable as me?
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Man, sometimes I feel like a monkey alone on this keyboard. I tried, but couldn't figure out any of the suggestions above, sigh..........
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BMG
| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaNomad
Click this button: |
That's the button I always use. |
I have always wondered how you guys did that....and I was still wondering until I hit the reply button....I see that icon now. Don't get it yet but
with practice maybe.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Barbareno
I have always wondered how you guys did that....and I was still wondering until I hit the reply button....I see that icon now.
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It shows up for me when I hit the QUOTE button.
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Just trying!
http://picasaweb.google.com/SaradeLaVos/Shakespeare08#5313442132410090178Just Me
O.k., now I get that I can't do this on instant reply, so finally I got this far, but I couldn't cut and paste, so I wrote in this really long
address, which creates a probable margin of error on my part, but we will see.
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Well, that for sure did not work. Hummmmmm, Will try again later.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Eli
Well, that for sure did not work. Hummmmmm, Will try again later. |
What are you trying to do?
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Eli
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I finally found the shorten link button mentioned by Baja Nomad. I than hit it and I wrote in "Just Me", and than I understood the instruction was to
add the full link, which I could not cut and paste, instead I had to write the whole dang thing. Than I hit the button to release it and thought I
would just get "Just Me" instead I got the whoooooooole link + just me. I am two shakes from figuring this out, but simple soul that I am there is a
step or two than I have missed, ni modo.
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BMG
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Eli
I finally found the shorten link button mentioned by Baja Nomad. I than hit it and I wrote in "Just Me", and than I understood the instruction was to
add the full link, which I could not cut and paste, instead I had to write the whole dang thing. Than I hit the button to release it and thought I
would just get "Just Me" instead I got the whoooooooole link + just me. I am two shakes from figuring this out, but simple soul that I am there is a
step or two than I have missed, ni modo. |
First, highlight and copy the URL you want to link to. Then, as
you write your post, when you get to the place where you want your link inserted, click on the link button (the button BajaNomad pictured.) Type in
the name you want to give your link, i.e. Just Me, and hit OK. Now paste the URL you already have copied and hit OK again. Check 'Preview Post' to see
if your link is posting correctly.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Eli
I couldn't cut and paste, |
Sometimes a long, drawn out link won't hylite in the regular manner for a C+P. I've found if you hylite from right to left, it will.
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Tried again, I hit the nomad incript button and I get a message to type in the short name, I type in "Just me", the notice sez type in full url, I try
to paste but the little box gives me a BOINK and I can go to cut and paste or back to the forum with out closing the little box.
Oh well, in my case it isn't like I had anything all powerful to post, I was just trying to figure out how the thing work.
Also tried the Iflyfish link, but again, I am missing something in the instructions.
My computer is getting kind of old and grouchy, (a bit like me). I keep saying next year I will trade in for a new one, (glad they can't do that with
me jeje).
Thanks anyway you guys.
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BMG
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Eli
Tried again, I hit the nomad incript button and I get a message to type in the short name, I type in "Just me", the notice sez type in full url, I try
to paste but the little box gives me a BOINK and I can go to cut and paste or back to the forum with out closing the little box.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BMG
First, highlight and copy the URL you want to link to. |
Get the URL copied first, before you hit the 'link'
button.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Eli
Also tried the Iflyfish link, but again, I am missing something in the instructions.
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Not much that can be missed, Eli. C+P the URL which you want to shorten into this box:
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Enter a long URL to make tiny:
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It will give you the new, more manageable URL to C+P and use.
Perhaps your problem comes from trying to add something to this, such as "just me."
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Iflyfish
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Step 1. Place your cursor on the link you want to shorten, highlight that link, right click and choose "Copy"
Step 2. Open this site http://tinyurl.com/create.php
Step 3. Place your cursor over the box and right click and choose "Paste"
Hope this helps.
Iflyfish
[Edited on 7-30-2010 by Iflyfish]
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Eli
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None of this is working for me really. You would have to be sitting here with me to believe it and that ain't going to happen, so I am going to drop
it now and go on. Every which way, I get boink, boink, boink. I hate boink!
[Edited on 7-30-2010 by Eli]
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