How to Post Links:
You could just copy the URL of the website
you wish to link to and paste into the "body" of the post window. I use
"Ctrl-c" to copy and "Ctrl-v" to paste. You can hold the "Ctrl" key
down with your pinkie finger of the left hand and use your index finger
for the "c" and "v". You have to keep holding down the "Ctrl" key while
pecking the other keys. You end up with this:
http://www.finescale.com/
You
could just leave it like that. Interested people can copy and paste
that into the address bar of their browser, but it's better to make it
a "hot" link, so people can just click on it. These instructions will
show you how to do this quickly and easily.
You start by
"highlighting" the URL. You can use left mouse click and hold while
"swiping" the line", release when you have captured the line. Or you
can hold the mouse cursor "over" the line and use multiple and fast
clicks to select, it usually takes three clicks:
Then,
while keeping the line highlighted, select the "insert/edit link"
button found on the editing toolbar above the post window. Note that
you MUST have the line highlighted first, or the button will not work!:
That
opens the "insert/edit link" box, where you paste the exact same URL
you did before. It also gives you the option to chose whether the link
opens in the same window, or a new window. Not choosing selects same
window by default, then select the "Insert" button at the lower left:
http://www.finescale.com/
Title
doesn't appear to do anything, or at least I haven't figured out what
it does! Just ignore it! You have just created a "hot" link!
Congratulations! See, that was pretty easy, wasn't it?
To make it
a bit fancier, you can have the link work, without showing the address.
This eliminates the part where you paste the URL into the post. You
begin instead with typing the word or sentence that you want to use as
the link and highlight as above:
Then
open the insert link box as instructed above, and paste the URL as
before. When you insert the link this time, only the word you've chosen
will become "hot""
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