"Changing" the name of a Link..?

grc123 · May 5, 2012

I asked this years ago, but cannot find the thread (not that I was ever able to perform the trick) or anything remotely close, but I am really hoping to learn how to change the appearance of a link, such as this--> http://forums.majorgeeks.com/index.php? - - to say something simple such as "Here" or "This", or whatever.

Everything I find on the web is not making sense to me, as per usual, it looks different on every site I look at. It's almost as with the usual "geek-thing", where it seems assumed by the person explaining, that the "student" (me, in this case) already has certain knowledge ("BB" code?) of a process already (knows one or more of the necessary steps).

Thanks in advance,
g...

foogoo · May 5, 2012

A link is called a hyper reference (HTML is hyper text markup language) the very basic idea of the web was to link articles together for referencing.

I don't have much hope if the rest of the web can't explain this to you, but here goes..
<a href="http://www.w3schools.com">Visit W3Schools</a>

Break it down
< is the start of the code
a is for anchor
href is the hyper reference
="the actual url you want people to see when clicked"
>the words the person will see as the link
</a> the closing of the anchor tag and the end of the code
Now this code may work as typed in an HTML enabled email, but as a web page you need to use more html
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>

<body>
<a href="http://www.w3schools.com">Visit W3Schools</a>
</body>

</html>

Copy everything for the <html> to the end </html> save as
"whatever.htm" and open it with IE of FF.

Just Playin · May 5, 2012

grc123 said: ↑

I asked this years ago, but cannot find the thread (not that I was ever able to perform the trick) or anything remotely close, but I am really hoping to learn how to change the appearance of a link, such as this--> http://forums.majorgeeks.com/index.php? - - to say something simple such as "Here" or "This", or whatever.

Everything I find on the web is not making sense to me, as per usual, it looks different on every site I look at. It's almost as with the usual "geek-thing", where it seems assumed by the person explaining, that the "student" (me, in this case) already has certain knowledge ("BB" code?) of a process already (knows one or more of the necessary steps).

Thanks in advance,
g...
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Go here

plodr · May 5, 2012

[ url=http://www.malwarebytes.org/ ] Go here [ /url ]

I had to put spaces in so you could see how I typed it.
When I remove the spaces, this is what appears
Go here

and you can click on my words "go here"

sach2 · May 5, 2012

For MG you can just use the little "Globe" looking, insert link, icon at the top of the reply box. To use it you type your word such as "Here" and then highlight the word(s); click the globe looking icon and paste your url/address and hit OK, it makes the link for you.

You can also use a FF addon like BBcode to put the ability in the right-click context menu.

So copy your link location then right click where you want to paste the link in the reply box and select bbcodeXtra then Clipboard and then URL with name. It will prompt you for the display text that you want to show (such as HERE) and then hit OK to make your link.

I find the addon useful because some sites use HTML which requires the <> brackets and some such as MG use the BBcode [] brackets. For most purposes all you need to know is which type of code a particular site uses BBcode or HTML and you can tell by the shape of the brackets.

grc123 · May 6, 2012

Thanks everyone..going to take me awhile to learn this, as it seems there are different methods, and differences between sites . . .

Thank you all again, very much .

pwillener · May 7, 2012

Not quite clear from your original post - are you asking how to make such a link here in the MG forum, or generally on the web (when making a website)?

Both are not very difficult, but a bit different (hence the conflicting replies to your question).

grc123 · May 13, 2012

pwillener said: ↑

Not quite clear from your original post - are you asking how to make such a link here in the MG forum, or generally on the web (when making a website)?

Both are not very difficult, but a bit different (hence the conflicting replies to your question).
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Thanks for the reply...and I apologize for the delay, but I am still not receiving notifications from this website (MG's)..?

I was asking in general, so that I can do it anywhere, please (if you're still there?) thank you...

g...

pwillener · May 14, 2012

In this (and many other forums), BBcode is used to make links; example
Code:
[URL="http://www.majorgeeks.com/"]Major Geeks[/URL]
This will show up as Major Geeks.

On the Internet in general, HTML code is used; example
Code:
<a href="http://www.majorgeeks.com/">Major Geeks</a>
For more details on the <a> tag see http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp

Sorry, I do not know about the forum notifications.

Earthling · May 14, 2012

Re notifications, check the setting of your default thread subscription mode in Edit Options.

grc123 · May 14, 2012

Thank you both (!), and will do (though I have checked the setting in my default thread subscription mode in Edit Options - - several times, but will do again..). . . .

plodr · May 14, 2012

Go up to the top of this thread and click on Thread Tools. Be sure you have subscribed to this thread.

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