does anyone have the code that can used used to shorten some of the very long URLs that get pasted in the messages?

IOW, is there a way to just use a highlighted keyword to go to a link instead of having the page expand towards Europe ?

https://www.electrical-contractor.net/ubb/ubbcode.html

Ian A.

Togol, go here to shorten URL's

Ian's link will help you with the rest of your question.

Roger

[This message has been edited by Roger (edited 03-11-2007).]

like this....... infopop.com

it would seem so..

Thanks Kid,

Roger I'm having some trouble at your link
I'll keep tryin

Togol, it seems I remember having trouble there before also, try this one

Roger

Thanks again Roger, I will give that a go shortly. drat, it seems that my Mac will not work with that link ...
I do have html code for long strings, but I can't use it here, but
the info from Ian helped a great deal...I always knew the UBB stuff was in here just too lazy to use some of it


Tom

[This message has been edited by togol (edited 03-11-2007).]

Tom, first off, You're welcome.

Second off, what browser are you using? I couldn't get www.shortenurl.com on Camino, Firefox or Safari, but www.TinyURL.com worked on all three.

OS 10.3.9, Safari 1.0

Ian A.

You can also avoid the problem by simply putting an abbreviated version or some other text within the part of the code which displays on the screen.

For example:

{URL=Link to page on somesite.zzz}http://www.somesite.zzz/this_is_a_very_long_address_ which_would_otherwise_go_right_off_the_screen.html{/URL}

I've used { and } on the tags so that you can actually see what to type. When doing this for real you need to use square brackets: [ ]

Ian ,
it's an old Mac with the Classic 9.2 and IE 5.. and I just got the html code for the other forum I hang out in after all these years but after your nudge to look at the UBB page again...the light finally came on. like I said, I was just too lazy in the past


Hey I like the new preview button,

pauluk,

I think that's what I did in my practice shot earlier. I don't post that much, but I do get frustrated with some links that cause the whole post to sprawl across the screen into the next county and I wanted to avoid that problem with my posts.
of course
I Thank You for your help as well.

Tom

Gotcha Tom.

I like that you can use HTML in the photo areas now.

Ian A.

Or you can just click the little URL icon below the box when you are creating a post or reply. It only appears on the FULL REPLY form.

Test

Link should look like this: Nice Short Link

AHAHaHahaahahaa

Talk about serendipity,
I wait all these months to ask this UBB question and because I'm such a nice guy, Mr. Bill upgrades the whole thing and adds a little button to do just that.

I 'can't wait to see the bill