thank you all! Greg's answer was just what I needed. Thank you so much,
Greg.
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Greg Warner <
gdwarner@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just click this at the bottom of your email screen (you may have to hover
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> 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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