Thread: LESSON ON SHORTENING URLS WHEN POSTING

Originally Posted by loservillelabor

Yeah, it's a pain to scroll back and forth every line because a long URL stretched the page.
Here's a format to "hide" a link.
Paste your link onto page and highlight it. Click URL box above post.

http://www.alipac.us/ftopic-reply-104354.html

Take out left closing bracket and replace with equals sign. Place closing bracket after link in this case after html. Then enter any text for link between the two brackets.
Example:
ALIPAC THREAD

Hey thanks so much for providing the info ..

Yes, I too have been somewhat annoyed by having to ALWAYS move the box of the window around. I've only seen this in AliPac..

.and this info SHOULD'VE been part of a sticky, one would THINK the info had been there.. ..but since ’04..?!

Thanks for posting this Gogo. But when it comes time to post I wont be able to find these instructions.

CAN THIS BE PUT ON A "STICKY" IN AN EASY PLACE TO FIND?

Originally Posted by butterbean

Thanks for posting this Gogo. But when it comes time to post I wont be able to find these instructions.

CAN THIS BE PUT ON A "STICKY" IN AN EASY PLACE TO FIND?

I'm not a moderator but maybe Phrede can do it or April.

What I did was bookmark the tinyurl site. I have it open in a extra window if I think I need it. So I can go from Alipac to tinyurl site and back. I used Mozilla Firefox so its real easy. It took a little getting use to Firefox but now I wouldn't go back to Internet Explorer.

Thought this might be useful to post again.

Originally Posted by carolinamtnwoman

Thought this might be useful to post again.

Yes, I noticed some I've passed up because them being so long.

thats a good post; thank you

You're welcome. I sure was glad to learn how to do it.

Here you go folks.

Thanks for the Sticky Wow!

DITTO. THANKS FOR MAKING A STICKY. Now I dont have to search all over to for instructions to place an article that has a long url address.