Pink Tulip said:
I am trying to do the same thing but I don't really understand what to do.
Sorry, I am a bit slow today.
Say you want to post a link to the Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, but you don't want to use the URL itself because it isn't obvious what it refers to (
http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/), you do the following.
You type your message, including whatever words you want to represent the link. For example, you could write, "Click here to see a useful reference on royal genealogy."
Then you highlight "here" and click on the icon above the message box that looks like the globe (it's the one that says "insert link" when you put your mouse over it).
That will bring up a new small window labelled "Hyperlink." The first box shows the type of hyperlink, and the default is http, so you don't need to worry about that. The box under it is labelled URL, and in that box you type your
http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/. It already has "http" in the box, so if your URL also has http (rather than starting with www or whatever), you should delete the http in the box before pasting your link.
Then click OK, and the "here" that you highlighted in your message will turn into a clickable link, like this: "Click
here to see a useful reference on royal genealogy."
If you want to have a practice in this thread, go ahead. We can always delete any failed attempts! The first time I tried it on another board (several years ago!), I brought the thread to a grinding halt with something like six failed attempts!
If you want to do it "longhand," the code is [ url=http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/ ]here[ /url ] without the spaces next to the brackets. That ends up looking like this: "Click
here to see a useful reference on royal genealogy."
Edited to add: I see Danielle explained the longhand version before I got there!
