DonationCoder.com Forum
Special User Sections => DC Website Help and Extras => Site/Forum Features => Topic started by: mouser on August 23, 2007, 02:52 PM
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When you want to hyperlink a word or phrase in your post you normally select the text and hit the URL button (looks like globe) which surrounds your text with [url]TEXT[/url] tags.
If your text is a url like www.cnn.com then you are done.
If not you normally need to edit the tags to say for example:
click [url=http://www.cnn.com]here[/url] to visit cnn.
I've just made a small change so that if you dont put the = part it will link to a search for the item.
This is especially useful if you want to tell someone about some piece of software but you are too lazy to provide a link to it. For example:
- "Check out [url]ccleaner[/url]" will result in: Check out http://ccleaner.
It's also useful if you want to tell someone to search for something, e.g.:
- "Search for [url]accelerated c++[/url]" results in: Search for http://accelerated c++.
I hope this will encourage people to put links to items when they post lists of programs they use etc.
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good idea, mouser! 8)
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That is a good idea!
What about doing a site specific search? For example: CCleaner (http://www.google.com/search?as_q=ccleaner&hl=en&num=10&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=donationcoder.com&as_rights=&safe=images) which should display all CCleaner references on DonationCoder?
Then again, I suppose you could do that through the Forum Search anyway???