Renaming a URL

[sara505]

Don't know if this is the right place for this question, but basically, I am trying to rename a URL - you know, when you see: click here and the word here is the link to a web page. How do you turn the url into the word here (or other words).

I've seen a couple of explanations, including, "type your desired text, highlight it, past your url onto the highlighted text, voila, the new text becomes your URL."

That did not work, so far, and the other explanation I did not understand.

Thanks in advance.

[egordon99]

Is this for a webpage? And you have access to the HTML source file?

It's pretty easy, hopefully this Bulletin Board doesn't mess up the code -

<a href="your link">Go to my Link</a>

It will then show up as Go to my Link (http://www.cnn.com)

Easy as pie!

[egordon99]

Don't know if this is the right place for this question,

Might want to google around for some HTML boards, this is a very basic HTML question and I'm sure if you have any more questions, they'll be able to help you out. Good luck!

I learned HTML back in 1995 and wrote my first website using Notepad :)

[alt4852]

I learned HTML back in 1995 and wrote my first website using Notepad :)

ditto. those were a simpler time.. ;)

[sara505]

Is this for a webpage? And you have access to the HTML source file?

It's pretty easy, hopefully this Bulletin Board doesn't mess up the code -

<a href="your link">Go to my Link</a>

It will then show up as Go to my Link (http://www.cnn.com)

Easy as pie!

Thank you! I simply want to add it to my e-mail signature. I want these words: Sara's N-Q-D Photo Journal to be linked to a page at my web site.

I tried your solution - sounds very easy, but I must be missing something.

This is what I created on my signature page: <a href="http://sara505.smugmug.com/gallery/1916215_dAMGg#524919534_epaqY">Sara's N-Q-D Photo Journal</a>

But that's the end result. How do I get all the words except my desired text to go away?

Thanks again.

[tomd]

Don't know if this is the right place for this question, but basically, I am trying to rename a URL - you know, when you see: click here and the word here is the link to a web page. How do you turn the url into the word here (or other words).

I've seen a couple of explanations, including, "type your desired text, highlight it, past your url onto the highlighted text, voila, the new text becomes your URL."

That did not work, so far, and the other explanation I did not understand.

Thanks in advance.


I'll take a stab at this:

When typing out a post, highlight the text you want to become a link to a URL. Then above the text entering box, you will see a little icon that looks like earth with a oval in front of it (this stands for link to the world wide web). click on this icon and a box will pop up with field that will allow you to enter a web URL. you can add onto the http:// that is already there, or delete it and paste in a complete new address to the URL you want to be the link.

Try it and let me know.
Tom

[sara505]

Thank you! I simply want to add it to my e-mail signature. I want these words: Sara's N-Q-D Photo Journal to be linked to a page at my web site.

I tried your solution - sounds very easy, but I must be missing something.

This is what I created on my signature page: <a href="http://sara505.smugmug.com/gallery/1916215_dAMGg#524919534_epaqY">Sara's N-Q-D Photo Journal</a>

But that's the end result. How do I get all the words except my desired text to go away?

Thanks again.

I'm thinking, maybe I should not have added the quotation marks, so removed them. Still, it just reads out like a long laundry list, not the result I'm after.

I'm sure this must be easy, because I see it everywhere and have meaning to learn how to do it. Today's the day (I hope:D)

[tomd]

Thank you! I simply want to add it to my e-mail signature. I want these words: Sara's N-Q-D Photo Journal to be linked to a page at my web site.

I tried your solution - sounds very easy, but I must be missing something.

This is what I created on my signature page: <a href="http://sara505.smugmug.com/gallery/1916215_dAMGg#524919534_epaqY">Sara's N-Q-D Photo Journal</a>

But that's the end result. How do I get all the words except my desired text to go away?

Thanks again.

Like this?
Sara's N-Q-D Photo Journal (http://sara505.smugmug.com/gallery/1916215_dAMGg#524919534_epaqY)

[egordon99]

OK, now you're trying to mess with HTML email......Email was originally supposed to be just plaintext, but somewhere along the line folks decided to start adding images, hypertext, and (gasp!) javascript to email.....

Give me a second, and I'll do some googling.....

Thank you! I simply want to add it to my e-mail signature. I want these words: Sara's N-Q-D Photo Journal to be linked to a page at my web site.

I tried your solution - sounds very easy, but I must be missing something.

This is what I created on my signature page: <a href="http://sara505.smugmug.com/gallery/1916215_dAMGg#524919534_epaqY">Sara's N-Q-D Photo Journal</a>

But that's the end result. How do I get all the words except my desired text to go away?

Thanks again.

[tomd]

I think I mis-understood your question. You are not trying to do this in POTN, but rather in e-mails, etc.

Sorry

this is easy in g-mail, not sure about other programs.

[dreamcatcher23]

make sure you're sending HTML emails and not "plain-text" ones.

[sara505]

make sure you're sending HTML emails and not "plain-text" ones.


I use Eudora for my e-mail program. I do send html. I already have an active url: www.sarapiazza.com in my signature.

I want to add this url: http://sara505.smugmug.com/gallery/1916215_dAMGg#524919534_epaqY

But I want it to look like this: Sara's N-Q-D Photo Journal

Sorry if I'm not explaining this coherently.

[Hikin Mike]

I learned HTML back in 1995 and wrote my first website using Notepad :)

I used to use FrontPage 2000 years ago.


Now I use Notepad ++. :D

[Hikin Mike]

I use Eudora for my e-mail program. I do send html. I already have an active url: www.sarapiazza.com (http://www.sarapiazza.com) in my signature.

I want to add this url: http://sara505.smugmug.com/gallery/1916215_dAMGg#524919534_epaqY

But I want it to look like this: Sara's N-Q-D Photo Journal

Sorry if I'm not explaining this coherently.

Sara,

"egordon99" already gave you the generic code for a HTML link.

[egordon99]

I don't think FrontPage was around 2000 years ago :lol:

I used to use FrontPage 2000 years ago.


Now I use Notepad ++. :D

[egordon99]

I think the problem is when Sara is typing in the HTML code into the "Signature Editor Window" (or whatever....) the window itself is an WYSIWYG editor, so somehow she has to be able to edit the CODE itself....

Sara - WHAT email program are you using?

Sara,

"egordon99" already gave you the generic code for a HTML link.

[sara505]

Sara,

"egordon99" already gave you the generic code for a HTML link.

Yes, thank you. But the missing link for me (sorry:lol:) is how to get it to work.

What do I do with it? I made the new link, following the model, but it just stays that way, does not become the desired new name.

Am I doing something wrong?

[sara505]

Sara,

"egordon99" already gave you the generic code for a HTML link.


this is what I end up with:

<a href=http://sara505.smugmug.com/gallery/1916215_dAMGg#524919534_epaqY>Sara's N-Q-D Photo Journal</a>

How do I get it to morph into my selected text?

[Hikin Mike]

Yes, thank you. But the missing link for me (sorry:lol:) is how to get it to work.

What do I do with it? I made the new link, following the model, but it just stays that way, does not become the desired new name.

Am I doing something wrong?

Is this for the forums? Like using it in your signature?

[sara505]

I think the problem is when Sara is typing in the HTML code into the "Signature Editor Window" (or whatever....) the window itself is an WYSIWYG editor, so somehow she has to be able to edit the CODE itself....

Sara - WHAT email program are you using?

I use Eudora.

I already have www.sarapiazza in my signature, and it takes you to my site.

When I paste http://sara505.smugmug.com/gallery/1916215_dAMGg#524919534_epaqY


into my signature it's active and takes you to that page. I just want to rename it. Didn't realize it was this complicated.

[Hikin Mike]

I don't think FrontPage was around 2000 years ago :lol:

"FrontPage 2000"....the program. :lol:

[egordon99]

http://www.emailquestions.com/email-client-setup/63-create-html-signature-eudora.html

Does that help?

[sara505]

Is this for the forums? Like using it in your signature?

nope, it's for my e-mail signature.

[Hikin Mike]

Sara,

For most message boards use [ ] and 'url' instead of < > and 'href' like this:
{url=yourwebsite.com}Your Link{url} - JUST REMOVE THE BRACKETS{ } AND USE [ ] INSTEAD. :D

[sara505]

http://www.emailquestions.com/email-client-setup/63-create-html-signature-eudora.html

Does that help?


very interesting, and I suppose I could have looked there first (but some things are just too obvious:cool:), but alas and alack, I followed the instructions, exactly (I'm pretty sure), and it still just appears as this:


<html>
<br ody>
<br /><br ><br /><a href="http://sara505.smugmug.com/gallery/1916215_dAMGg#524919534_epaqY">Sara's N-Q-D Photo Journal</a>
<br /><br />
</body>
</html>

even after I've saved, closed the program, and sent myself an e-mail to test.

[egordon99]

Make sure that first BODY tag is actually <body> and NOT <br ody>

[sara505]

Make sure that first BODY tag is actually <body> and NOT <br ody>

Thank you - yeah, I'm tired, can't see this stuff any more.

I fixed it, saved, closed, reopened, still shows up as alphabet soup.

I forget, why did I want to do this, and why have I spent 6 hours on this?? :confused:

[Redlineracer12]

Now I use Notepad ++. :D
Me too ;)

[sara505]

So, here are the instructions from e-mail discussion board Re Eudora:

I used this code:

http://www.emailquestions.com/images/bbcodemanager/light/html/06nh.png
http://www.emailquestions.com/images/bbcodemanager/light/html/12nh.png http://www.emailquestions.com/images/bbcodemanager/light/html/04nh.png
http://www.emailquestions.com/images/bbcodemanager/light/html/05nh.png
<html>
<body>
<br /><br /><br />
Do you have an <a href="http://www.emailquestions.com/">E-Mail Question</a>?
<br /><br />
Let us help you answer it today in our <a href="http://www.emailquestions.com/email-forum.php">E-Mail Forum</a>!
</body>
</html>

http://www.emailquestions.com/images/bbcodemanager/light/html/01nh.png
http://www.emailquestions.com/images/bbcodemanager/light/html/03nh.png
To create this signature:


Quote:
http://www.emailquestions.com/images/bbcodemanager/light/quotes/12n_01.png

Do you have an E-Mail Question (http://www.emailquestions.com/)?

Let us help you answer it today in our E-Mail Forum (http://www.emailquestions.com/email-forum.php)!



Here's what I did:

<html>
<body>
<br /><br /><br /> <a href="http://sara505.smugmug.com/gallery/1916215_dAMGg#524919534_epaqY">Sara's N-Q-D Photo Journal</a>
<br /><br />
</body>
</html>

Still no worky.
If anyone has a clue as to what I'm doing wrong, I'll be happy to hear from you, otherwise, I gotta get back to my real life.

Thanks, as always.

[nuffi]

I wrote my first website in notepad as well. But I wrote my most recent one in vi.

:p

Sara, what version of Eudora are you running? And have you set your email client settings to be plain text only?

[sara505]

I wrote my first website in notepad as well. But I wrote my most recent one in vi.

:p

Sara, what version of Eudora are you running? And have you set your email client settings to be plain text only?


V 1.1.0.9

No, not plain text only, stylized and html.

my web site url reads and works fine in my signature.

[sara505]

V 1.1.0.9

No, not plain text only, stylized and html.

my web site url reads and works fine in my signature.

Finally got it!! after hours of fiddling with code and perusing the net, just about ready to check myself into the booby hatch.

I ran into a friend, a computer guy, asked his advice. He said, that's easy, just type your text, highlight it, right click, select HYPERLINK, type in your address into the box.

Well, Eudora didn't give me a hyperlink option, so I tried it in Word, then copied off of Word into my Eudora siggie - and voila! It Works!

So, maybe this info will help others.
Hope I don't fall into any more black holes today.

PS I also remembered that Eudora *does* have a hyper-link option, it's up above on the tool bar. It's hidden until you highlight your text, then you click on the icon and it opens up a window into which you type the URL.

Alls' well that ends well.