STORM2K

Lately there has been a rash of super-long urls in posts that cause the post width to stretch to annoying proportions.

Here's how to avoid that.


Copy the super long link. Go to http://tinyurl.com and paste your superlong link into the box at the bottom. Hit the "Make TinyURL!" button.

VOILA! A link about the size of your pinky toe, that gets to the same place the really long one did.

Alternately, on the tinyurl homepage, you can look on the left and click on "Make a Toolbar Button." Once you've got a toolbar button on your browser, you don't even have to copy the link anymore--if you're on the webpage you want to share, just hit the TinyUrl toolbar button and VOILA, instant pinky-toe-size link.


TinyURL is your friend, friends! Please, won't you do it for the children^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H posts?

I concur.

can we make this a sticky?

Or using the following code:





Name of link

Hmm... seems that everyone has picked up on me.



http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=81174

I'll test it...

http://tinyurl.com/7fcs9

It works! This is great!

or just use plain old html code where you can make your own url, without going to another website

Derek Ortt wrote:or just use plain old html code where you can make your own url, without going to another website

You can certainly do either, but I find tinyurl to be much easier and less error-prone than tags Plus this way someone can copy the short url if they see something here they want to email to someone, and not have to slap a giant url at their friend.

Gosh y'all, I'm a sticky! *blushes*

I've never posted a super long link before......NOT!

Thanks. Sure looks easy! Now watch me botch it all up.....LOL

Mary

The "[ url=http://www.yourlink.com ]Your Link[ /url ]" code looks better.