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 <
lists@bespokess.com> 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 <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
>
>
> 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" <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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