I think what you mean is how to make a link in an HTML document (website or email) be labelled something other than the URL, right?  So on a webpage the link might say "click here" instead of "http://example.com/some/stuff/tothe/page.html" but when you click on "click here" it takes you to that page.

That can be done with HTML.  So <a href="http://example.com/some/stuff/tothe/page.html">click here</a> would accomplish the above example.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html

- Jill


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n 2014-05-08 06:23, Michael Havens wrote:

> 
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Bryan O'Neal <
> Bryan.ONeal@theonealandassociates.com> wrote:
> 
> > Most services have an API. Even x.co has one.
> >  On May 7, 2014 5:13 PM, "James Dugger" <james.dugger@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> ​What is the context of the use case, website you are creating, or save
> >> typing (CLI)?  If it is a website, is it static (html only) or dynamic
> >> (PHP, Python, ASP.NET)?  Where is the site hosted, locally (you), ISP
> >> (Cox, CentruryLink, etc), hosting company (Hostmonster, GoDaddy, etc).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> welll, that's not quite what I meant.
> >>>
> >>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> nope, I don't. Oh well. Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org>wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 2014-05-07 12:44, Michael Havens wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> How do I I condense long urls ? You know, the 'click here' where the
> >>>>>> 'here' is a link to your address.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If you meant "I want to link to http://www.giantitp.com/
> >>>>> forums/showthread.php?t=59834 (silly post about the Beige Dragon) but
> >>>>> the giantitp link is a whole lot to type.  I'd rather use something like
> >>>>> http://crow202.org/22 ," then you would use a URL shortener.  There
> >>>>> are a bunch of them.  bit.ly and goo.gl are popular IIRC.  These
> >>>>> things usually end up giving you " http://goo.gl/654321 ", and if you
> >>>>> go there, the server there looks up 654321 in a huge table and gives you a
> >>>>> 301 redirect to http://example.com/a/really/huge/long/location/ .
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I wrote my own because it was a fairly easy thing to do, and all the
> >>>>> extant publicly-usable URL shorteners almost certainly use tracking cookies
> >>>>> and/or piles of JS garbage.  You probably don't have a webhost to put a URL
> >>>>> shortener on though.
> >>>>>
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