Just click this at the bottom of your email screen (you may have to hover over the + sign next to the paper clip): [image: Inline image 1] It will open up a dialog and the rest is history! On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 3:07 PM, jill wrote: > 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 click here would accomplish the above example. > http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html > > - Jill > > > O > 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" 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 wrote: > > >> > > >>> welll, that's not quite what I meant. > > >>> > > >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > > >>> > > >>>> nope, I don't. Oh well. Thanks. > > >>>> > > >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Matt Graham 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. > > >>>>> > > >>>>> -- > > >>>>> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > > > >>>>> There is no Darkness in Eternity > > >>>>> But only Light too dim for us to see. > > >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- > > >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > >>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > >>>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>> > > >>> --------------------------------------------------- > > >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > >>> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> James > > >> > > >> *Linkedin * > > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------- > > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >