Hi Everyone,
Thinking about all the really long urls that have been included as links in many posts over the years, I figured a housekeeping & formatting suggestion might be in order. I hope no one minds.
There are two ways to post a link on this forum.
- Put the address between two url tags:
[color:"#cc0000"][ur[/color][color:"#cc0000"]l][/color]http://www.equipped.org/[color:"#cc0000"][/u[/color][color:"#cc0000"]rl][/color].
This creates a link that looks like http://www.equipped.org/. - Put the address within the first url tag, and some link text between the two url tags:
[color:"#cc0000"][color:"#cc0000"]/www.equipped....org/]link text.
(This allows you to decide how long you want the link to be when the page is rendered!)
For shorter urls, either method works equally well, and the only reason to use one over the other is aesthetics. The problem is with very long urls. They don't wrap, so they force the webpage to become wider than it should be for easiest readability.
The first method listed above ends up being written like
[color:"#cc0000"][ur[/color][color:"#cc0000"]l][/color]http://www.equipped.org/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=campfire&Number=20458&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&vc=1[color:"#cc0000"][/u[/color][color:"#cc0000"]rl][/color].
This ends up looking like
http://www.equipped.org/ubbthreads/showt...o=&vc=1The second method listed above is written like
[color:"#cc0000"]
[color:"#cc0000"]/www.equipped...;vc=1]link text.
(Again, this gives
you control over how long the link ends up being on the rendered page!)
I hope my explanation & examples were clear. I would encourage everyone who cares about such things to use the second method whenever dealing with longer than normal urls. It's tidier.
Stay safe,
J.T.