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Elegant In-Line Text Links-- Makes your posts look Pro and Powerful

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Categories: Trike Talk, Photography, Video, Web Site Development / Help

This user tip came from one of Ken's photo pages:   (hint the words "one of Ken's photo pages" are now an elegant link!!!)

 

Ken,

You taught me a cool trick here:

You wrote:  "PVC works in this case as the wing will be supported from the ceiling of the trailer."

where "wing will be supported" is a LINK to another photo.

That link actually leads you to your photo here:  http://alltrikes.com/elgg/photos/image/3035/wing-tip-support-to-roof

But it is so much more elegant how you turned the text into the link!!!

 

So, folks, how'd he do that?  I had to fiddle a little to figure it out.  But, look below at the "Leave a Comment" box.  See the very faint greyed out chain link and broken chain link symbols?  Ok, follow along with me:

Type some text in the "Leave a Comment" box:   onefish twofish, redfish bluefish

No use your cursor to select/highlight the text portion you want to turn into the link.  Say you select "redfish"

As soon as you do that, the chain link and broken chain link symbols go active (not greyed out).

Click on chain link symbol and a popup comes up where you can enter the long URL (actual link address) to another place on the web.

Done!!   Very Simple, Very nice!

 

Of course, you can hover over all the symbols at the top of the "Leave a Comment" box to see what they are.

See if you can see the link below?  ;)

 

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    To go one step beyond that, you can have your link popup in a new tab (so people can stay on your post at the same time).  When you click on the active "Chain Link" icon, first paste in your URL into the empty "URL" field, then click on the tab in that box labeled "Target" and change that from "" to ""

    With the above two simple steps, you reduce a long unwieldy link into a simple one or two word active link, AND, you can have that link open in a new window so the reader of your post can keep your post window open ad not get lost from the conversation you started!!!

     

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    AllTrikes.com:  Your POWERFUL site for friendly, Trikes, Trike Flying, Trike Pilots, Weight Shift Control Aircraft, WSC, Lightsport, Ultralights, Powered Hang Gliders, Microlights, and a whole lot more.