This is so embarrassing, but I forgot long ago how to do links.

hey susan! i’ll try my best. let’s say you want to link to youtube ok? so the link you want to input is http://www.youtube.com , but you want to hyperlink it to a word. so put the word you want to hyper link it to under quotes, such as “source” and then follow it with a colon and the http://www.youtube.com. so for example “source” : http://www.youtube.com (without the space in between source and colon and the actual link. Tadah – source

PS – It’s important to add the “http://” part (so you can’t just say ‘www”) for the link to actually work.

It’s at the bottom of the comment screen under the box where we type. There are all sorts of typing clues.

Put whatever you want the text of the link to say in quotes followed by a colon and the address.

I.m going to practice here OK? I’ve never been able to figure it out. I think PnL may have explained it in a way I can understand. Friends

Ok, so why does it go to this page instead of the fluther home page when I told it to go to fluther.com?

Judi, I believe you just linked to fluther.com instead of typing out http://www.fluther.com (like I said above, the “http://www” part is important too). Try it with that now.

So it would be “friends” : http://www.fluther.com (without the spaces)

Edit – And oh when I said hyperlink it to a word…that just means attaching the link to a word (in case there was any confusion)

friends

@PnL :: and without the period between the http: and // :-)

victory!

yay judi!

@JP – um. i don’t know what you are talking about. mmmm what period? where where? hides

This is interesting. Click on this.

Then see what it does to the first link Judi made on the page that opens.

I don’t get it. What does it do? It basically opens this page whether I click on her first link using your link or not using your link. I mean, besides the fact that it incorporates your “wtf” in the link in the address bar.

It modifies the link she made. But now I know I can do stuff like This.

Another good tip for people having trouble with linking is to test your link using the “live preview” section. before clicking on “answer”, you should be able to click on your link from the live preview, and see if it takes you to the right page. this checking method should help you become comfortable with linking.

@jp – that is cool

The real question is whether susanc gets it

Just to add my little tip, I find it’s easiest to:
Right click on the address of the page you want to link, and copy it.
Then come back to Fluther, type in “words you want to link”
Then type in the :
Then right click and paste the address you want.
Less typing = fewer opportunities for mistakes.

No, Gail, so far I vehemently don’t get it because every single red/underlined “link”-
looking word above brought me right back to this page. But I’m going to try augustlan’s most recent recipe and see. Here goes.

except PnL’s “cool”. that took me to a different page about tshirts.

Here’s a song:http://www.fluther.comwww.youtube.com/watch?v=VDiRG9LpI2c

We did it on purpose. How about this?

quotation mark <typed word this> close quotes, colon (no space) paste in link from earlier question, after having highlighted and copied the URL .

Susan; something went wrong there. Call your local teen ager to come over and show you. (If I can do it, anyone can.) g

Well…... I did all of what augustlan said, to the best of my ability to understand it, but
perhaps since there is no “right click” on my mouse (assuming that’s what “right click” means), it didn’t work. What I did do was go to the URL and copy it and paste it onto the
“answer” page-ette exactly as Gail suggested. A nice little red version of the word
“this” popped up in the Live Preview and I clicked on that. Then everything disappeared.
Actually I did this twice and the same thing happened each time.

@Gail, the best person I can get advice from is too far away. except for you guys.

@PnL: but so what if I got people linked to youtube (which is in fact where I want to get something from, or direct people to…). Can’t I copy the specific location of the specific song? How are people going to get from “youtube” to the song I want them to hear?

God dammit. I’m really mad.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDiRG9LpI2c

Okay, I worked this part out: you get the (URL?) (the identifying addressish thing of the
song or whatever) and paste it onto the “Answer this question” pagelet, in quotation marks.
Then you type a colon and then you type the fluther address, as indicated below. What confused me was that I kept typing in the word “this” which got me nowhere. How do I
get my link to be called “this” instead of the name of the URLish thing? See how in my previous answer you actually see the “address” of the song? I don’t want that, because
it takes away the element of surprise.

I’m still furious.

Susan, it took me forever to learn this, too, so don’t feel too bad. Let me try again. Everything that you should type, I’ll put in bold letters:
” this ” :
(no spaces between the quote mark, this, quote mark & colon). Immediately after the colon – again with no space – either copy and paste or type in the URL/web address.

Big hint is to get the URL/web address copied before you try to type your answer. If you leave this page, your answer may get lost, and you’ll have to start over.

susan. whatever link you want to direct to, you just copy and paste it. Now you said you want the link to be directed to “this”. So you put this under quotations…like “this” and then follow it with a colon and then the actual youtube link leading to the song.

So it will be “this” : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDiRG9LpI2c without the spaces in between “this” and colon and actual link.

like this

Maybe a Step format will be clearer:

Step 1 – Find whatever link you want to direct to and make sure it is a complete link which means it includes http:// in the beginning of the link. Example – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDiRG9LpI2c

Step 2 – Make sure the link has been copied from the address bar so you can paste it real quick when you are ready to put it in an answer.

Step 3 – Know the keyword you want to use, which when clicked on, will lead to the site you want it to take it too. Example: source

Step 4 – Put keyword in between quotation marks. Example: “source”

Step 5 – Follow what you did in Step 4 with a colon. Example: “source”:

Step 6 – Follow what you did in Step 5 with the link you have already copied from Steps 1 and 2. Example: “source” : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDiRG9LpI2c (without the spaces in between)

Tadah – source

O PnL I finally got it, just before your penultimate (stepwise) explication arrived. I did. It’s so much simpler than I thought! Because I thought I had to include (somewhere!?!?!) the bit that’s on the little guide below the “Answer” space, which goes like this: http://www.fluther.com. I thought I had to add that (literally) either before or after the
pasted URL. Well no wonder my “this” kept taking me back to this page…..

PHEW
Thanks
I’m going to bed now.

Yay!

Sweet dreams :)

Susan, You are wonderful.

And for fluther future references, call the local high school’s computer science dept. and see if there is a rent-a-kid.

“source“http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/start.shtml?cm_mmc=PPC%3a%20Google-TPN%20%20Brand-Grainger_-grainger

judo, you forgot the colon after source. by that i mean, it should be “source”: then followed by link.

Shoot! I thought I had erased my mistake…..(hangs head)

Try again, Judo…you’ll get it!

Lemme try again. Okay, fingers crossed

good job!!! it worked :). congratulations.

Yes, thank you PnL!