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I've noticed a couple of instances tonight of links to other sites being used in posts where the URL linked to is very long. This causes the page width to be extended in some browsers and makes the whole topic page very difficult to view. There are several ways to avoid this phenomena - and to make your post look much more professional as well.
Some folk like to use http://tinyurl.com/ to create nice short links from URLs and this method is fine if you prefer it, however there is an even better way to do it straight from the MHF interface as you type your post. For those of you who don't know how to do it, follow the instructions below. Apologies to those who already use the method - I'm not trying to teach you how to suck eggs, just helping those new members who haven't found the trick yet.
Type your message as usual and at the point where you want to insert the link, select the "insert URL" icon above the text window (4th from left, bottom row). This opens a dialogue box where you can then paste the URL of the page you want to link to. Another dialogue box will then open asking for the page name. Type in the text you want to appear on your post (LOOK HERE for example) and press OK. Press preview to check it's correct, then submit.
Hope this information is useful to someone.
Last edited by gaspode on Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:25 pm; edited 1 time in total ______________________________________________________________ If you lend someone £20 and never see that person again, it was probably well worth it.
You may all have noticed some subtle changes to the home page which can result in long post titles and user names being truncated. This is an area that Nuke has been putting a lot of effort into in order to get rid of the problem of the page width changing in some browsers. It finally seems that he has done a good job and cured the bug. It does however emphasise the need to keep your post titles short, if they're too long they will simply be truncated to fit the available page width - so do try to keep them short and relevent to the subject.
On the same theme I have had to edit several posts tonight to eliminate long links which have been screwing up the page widths. Unfortunately this is a bit of a laborious process and risks losing the link. So please take note of the post at the head of this topic and if you need to insert long links into posts, use the suggested methods. You know it makes sense.
______________________________________________________________ If you lend someone £20 and never see that person again, it was probably well worth it.
Hi Ken,
May I just point out that if you use the Quick Reply box at the bottom of the postings page then the URL link does not give you the option to change the link name, it just accepts what you paste in.
I use this Quick Reply more than the Post Topic one but do now remember that if I want to paste a URL I must use the top link.
That's how it works for me anyway
Thanks for all your work.
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Now Ken, I am sorry to contradict you but the 'Quick Reply' that I am using now is below the last post on the topic page, from what I remember 'Post Reply' is on the PM page
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______________________________________________________________ Tricia ---- Dogs are not our whole life but they make our lives whole.
I've noticed a couple of instances tonight of links to other sites being used in posts where the URL linked to is very long. This causes the page width to be extended in some browsers and makes the whole topic page very difficult to view. There are several ways to avoid this phenomena - and to make your post look much more professional as well.
Some folk like to use http://tinyurl.com/ to create nice short links from URLs and this method is fine if you prefer it, however there is an even better way to do it straight from the MHF interface as you type your post. For those of you who don't know how to do it, follow the instructions below. Apologies to those who already use the method - I'm not trying to teach you how to suck eggs, just helping those new members who haven't found the trick yet.
Type your message as usual and at the point where you want to insert the link, select the "insert URL" icon above the text window (4th from left, bottom row). This opens a dialogue box where you can then paste the URL of the page you want to link to. Another dialogue box will then open asking for the page name. Type in the text you want to appear on your post (LOOK HERE for example) and press OK. Press preview to check it's correct, then submit.
Hope this information is useful to someone.
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Hi Tricia,
The quick reply is only on pm messages received by you, the post reply is definitely at the bottom of the last post.
Pm, quick reply has no options to do anything other than add smiley‘s, the post reply on a thread has all the options link/url etc.
MHS....Rob
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As I am typing this my last post of just one elongated word is at the top of this box. This box is to the right of the Emoticons - above this box is Font colour and Font size, above that are things such as Bold, italic, underline, quote, code etc, above that is the space for the Subject and then above that is a yellow box, all across the page and in the centre it says "Quick Reply"
Now, if you don't believe me, then get on down here and take a look for yourselves.
Is this some devious plot to send me doolally
Edit - I must remember to use Spellcheck!
Guess what Spellcheck doesn't like .. it's own name
Last edited by tokkalosh on Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:14 pm; edited 2 times in total ______________________________________________________________ Tricia ---- Dogs are not our whole life but they make our lives whole.
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