threads and links

What am I, dumb? WHERE do I learn how to initiate a thread and a link...a referral link for me to a particular site? shock

I assume you are looking for your personal referral link for your site. Usually, when you are logged into the account, it will be on the first page that you see. Is there a particular site that you are having trouble finding your link on?

Either that or she's trying to make a link to her thread which you would just use the "URL" command, unless she wanted to make it say something else.

But I think she's most likely talking about was you said MMM, but I think I will wait for her to respond )

[quote2b0eee432b="patrick_7412"]Either that or she's trying to make a link to her thread which you would just use the "URL" command, unless she wanted to make it say something else.

But I think she's most likely talking about was you said MMM, but I think I will wait for her to respond )[/quote2b0eee432b]
i sent her some info on how to get started...

and since you brought it up....how do you make it say something else??

Jenne, I've also been helping nurse_29 out for about a week, and we are getting everything sorted out )

And to learn more about making links say something else, either PM me or talk to me on AIM. I am currently online.

[quoteb5da2028be="Jenne1975"][quoteb5da2028be="patrick_7412"]Either that or she's trying to make a link to her thread which you would just use the "URL" command, unless she wanted to make it say something else.

But I think she's most likely talking about was you said MMM, but I think I will wait for her to respond )[/quoteb5da2028be]
i sent her some info on how to get started...

and since you brought it up....how do you make it say something else??[/quoteb5da2028be]

Not too hard..simple HTML below )

<a href="http//www.YOURLINKHERE.WHATEVER">YOUR TEXT HERE FOR PEOPLE TO VIEW</a>

Lol. That's pretty much the same thing I said. ) Except you forgot the closing quote marks at the end of your "link".

Ah, oops. Simple mistake. I was trying to make it work, and then I thought "stupid me there's a DISABLE HTML thing at the bottom", and forgot to re-add those...editing it now.

Thx bunny ;)

Lol. No problem ... I forgot about the disable html, too ... so I made a picture and uploaded it and sent it out. Then I remembered ... oh well. )

Glad I could catch your mistake before people reported your link doesn't work ;)

Thanks again!! got it to work on first try..lol

While some limited HTML is enabled on the forums, it's advised to stick with BBCode where supported simply because members can elect to disable all HTML in their profile, in which case they'll see your raw HTML code instead of your link. Using BBCode guarantees all members will properly see your link.

The correct BBCode approach would be

[code16d8a16b10d][url==http://www.google.com]A Link to Google[=http://www.google.com]A Link to Google[/url][/code16d8a16b10d]

The HTML support is there for those more complex tasks (like table layouts) that BBCode doesn't support. However you must use it with caution because broken HTML -- especially tables -- can break the forum page layout. If that starts happening we'll have to disable HTML. You are also subject to the aforementioned issue with members disabling HTML, so use at your own risk.